RE: Missing characters for Italian

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 16:00:11 EDT


>The point is that encodings currently used for French have none of these.

Well, then, just do what the French do: don't use any of them, even though
you may be tempted to use some.

>The ideal for me, rather than adding the missing "e" and "i", would be to
>delete the existing "a" and "o".

So, at least in principle, you're open to the suggestion I offer above.

>Then, I preferred not to venture on the ground languages that I don't know
>well enough. Moreover, talking about a single language, I hoped to avoid
the
>"my-language-too" effect.

So I'm inclined to propose my ideas for phonetics strictly for the purpose
of phonetics.

- Peter

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