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

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Elias Pschernig wrote:
> And I think we agreed we only add languages with new symbols. So for
> Kannada, we could even remove one of the ASCII only languages. Or
> alternatively, we could do a different algorithm, leaving somewhat more
> horizontal space. Then we could add more languages, like e.g. German, as
> well :)


How about putting several languages on each line? Each line could be 
shared by different languages that use a similar alphabet. That way, not 
only do we reduce the clutter, but we place less emphasis on the Roman 
alphabet.

One line could have languages that only use the first 256 ASCII 
characters (Western-European languages), one line cold have languages 
that use more extensions to the Roman alphabet (Eastern-European 
languages, Icelandic, Maltese, etc.). The next line could be the 
Cyrillic alphabet (Russian, Ukranian, Bulgarian) and so on... For 
Japanese, the message could be in both the Hirogana and Katakana scripts 
and share the same line.

We could either wait for one language to disappear before another 
language appears on the line, or we could have two or more languages on 
the line at once. The choice depends on how much clutter this causes. 
Also, the scrolling-speed could be proportional to the number of 
languages on each line.

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?

AE.