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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics |
Date: | Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:49:34 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 |
Alexis wrote:
Out of interest, what's the natural language other than English that can use ASCII only?
English isn’t one of the two ASCII-only languages. It's naïve to think that even American English is ASCII-only.
I was once told that the other ASCII-only natural language is Hawaiʻian. Pretty funny, huh?
Anyway, two reasonable answers to the original question would be roman Swahili and modern Latin. Classical Latin needs some non-ASCII characters; see, for example:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_littera_in_manuscripto.jpg which I'm attaching for convenience.
I_littera_in_manuscripto.jpg
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