Re: Fast UTF-8 strlen function

Sevag Krikorian wrote:
> So many different character formats, it's just insane. Everyone
should
> just speak English and be done with it!

I think Beth's already commented along these lines.

> It would be nice to come up with a new phonetic alphabet that just
uses
> the standard 27 keys. If you drop the redundancies in English
> characters, that would free up several possible keys for adding new
> 'sounds' ... that also leaves plenty of space in the byte for useful
> 'symbolic' characters.
>
> eg:
> ku = 'q' -- frees up 'q' for a new sound
> s - c - k -- just use 's' for all 's' and 'c' sound, free up 'c'
> use 'k' for all 'k' and 'c' words that sound like 'k'
> use 'c' for ch and change 'ch' to the gutteral version "loch" or
"ach"
>
> It's possible to fit all sounds in use by all languages in 27 keys
along
> with 2 key combos.

Um, look at the phoenics of the word "through". The "th" sound is a
consonant sound that realy could go almost anywhere. Don't forget,
also, the Japanese "*y*" sets made of a consonant at the start, the
"y", and a vowel that goes with "y" ("a", "o", and "u", if memory
serves). Next, my favorite Japanese syllable: "tsu". It's one that
takes a few moments of practice, but it's fun to say. Lastly, we have
the Japanese "n" syllable, and it's the only case of repeating with
"na", "ne", "ni", "no", "nu", and "n".

(Oh, and what vowels are we going to use? Japanese uses "a" ("father"),
"e" (short 'e'), "i" (long 'e'), "o" ("'Oh,' you don't say!"), and "u"
("through"). Should the short 'i' ("bit") should be included?)

Let's step back for a minute and say you did try comming up with this:
what kind of culture would it be aimed at? If it comes up online, then
you'll definately need Information Technology terminology, acronyms,
and other things in the vocabulary. Give it a few seconds thought, and
you'll see it isn't such an easy problem.

> --
> [kain]
> http://www.geocities.com/kahlinor

NoDot,
....

P.S. The phoenics of "through" might turn out to be "thru", for the
interested.

.

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