exunicod (was: Re: [AD] Re: Alleg-developers digest, Vol 1 #948 - 9 msgs)

[Andrei Ellman <ae-a-alleg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elias Pschernig wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:57 +0100, Wackonet Mailbag Default account
> wrote:
>
> > While on the subject of exunicod, could we transliterate 'Allegro' into 
> > the foreign alphabet, or should it be in the Roman alphabet for all 
> > languages?
>
> I think it makes more sense to transliterate it. The current way also is
> bad if there's a language where you can't simply put the word "Allegro"
> to the end. I guess the reason why it was done is to show the
> capabilities of Allegro's unicode routines though.. so in light of that,
> I think it makes sense to leave it the way it is and show how to use
> ustrcat.

Good point about showing off the capabilities of Allegro's unicode 
routines. However, in Japanese, there is a separate alphabet that is 
used for writing foreign words. Perhaps Allegro can be tranliterated to 
that alphabet for the Japanese text.

AE.