<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Could someone explain to me in layman's terms what exactly ASCII is please? Is it simply typing without the use of diacritics or special characters?</DIV>
<DIV>With regard to this, like Roger, I use the alt+num method for Dalcurian (but I know not if this works on all standard keyboards, or in fact only with Windows), here is a good site for alt codes: <A href="http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html#accent">http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html#accent</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Jim wrote: I think Dayle here was just talking about an alternate<BR>all-ASCII orthography for Dalcurian.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Correct, and although a recent addition to the language (in fact, introduced for this project), I had been thinking about it for sometime; I'm really not keen on how highly diacritical Dalcurian is now-but thats how it is so cant change it!</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm pretty sure that the author of the chosen conlang, be it diacritical, wouldn't mind an alternate spelling if its going to cause problems for some people? </DIV>
<DIV>Dayle<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#6000bf size=4>"I'm strange to those who are normal, and normal to those who are strange; quite frankly-I prefer the latter"!</FONT></DIV></td></tr></table><br>