Martin Kochanski <unicode@cardbox.net> wrote:
> To clarify: an example of what I mean would be that people got
together and
> decided "let's represent s-acute by <s'>, z-acute by <z'>, z-dot by
<x>, l-slash
> by <q>,...". This sounds bizarre, but something like this did actually
happen.
> You rapidly got used to reading the encoded stuff, as well.
Sounds like VIQR (VIetnamese Quoted Readable), a scheme for writing
Vietnamese non-ASCII characters using sequences of ASCII characters. In
VIQR, a character like U+1EA5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND
ACUTE (ấ) is written a^'. Some Vietnamese say they can read this
notation as easily as the "real" characters.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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