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From: | David Kastrup |
Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics |
Date: | Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:33:28 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes: >> 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. > > Interesting. However, this is not what you can see on the common > all-uppercase inscriptions (cf. Capitalis and Capitalis monumentalis). > So it seems that ASCII is *sufficient* to write correct Latin. Yes and no. Antique Latin is written differently these days, just like Antique Greek (which gradually adopted a three-accent system into Alexandrian papyri in the 2nd century AD even though the system had already been invented in the Hellenistic period in the 3rd century BC by Aristophanes in Byzantium). Writing correct Antique Greek _requires_ the use of the 3-accent system even though nobody in Antique Greece ever used it. -- David Kastrup
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