From: Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Grammar
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100727133136.GA5455@phare.normalesup.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimp-EN6O88ySQ44H-jWjOp=jkVGWBrVu5s5VpvW@mail.gmail.com>
> I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a
> Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender
> pronoun.
Unicode encodes scripts, not languages, so that's outside of its
scope. Even if you were to develop a new character that would function
as a neutral gender pronoun in English or other languages, it would
still be attached to one (or several) language(s). You're of course
free to advocate its use in all existing languages with a written
standard, but that would take some time ;-) And even then, it would
leave out the vast majority of languages, those that are only spoken.
Arthur
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 16:23 Grammar Richard Stephens
2010-07-26 20:20 ` Grammar John Haltiwanger
2010-07-26 20:48 ` Grammar Khaled Hosny
2010-07-26 21:25 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-27 8:47 ` Grammar Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-27 13:06 ` Grammar John Haltiwanger
2010-07-27 13:17 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-27 13:24 ` Grammar luigi scarso
2010-07-27 13:26 ` Grammar Procházka Lukáš
2010-07-27 13:38 ` Grammar Taco Hoekwater
2010-07-27 15:16 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-27 15:28 ` Grammar Arthur Reutenauer
2010-07-27 15:38 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-27 13:31 ` Arthur Reutenauer [this message]
2010-07-27 14:12 ` Grammar John Haltiwanger
2010-07-27 15:04 ` Grammar Arthur Reutenauer
2010-07-27 14:10 ` Grammar David Rogers
2010-07-27 14:15 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-27 16:33 ` Grammar David Rogers
2010-07-27 16:59 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-27 17:03 ` Grammar Taco Hoekwater
2010-07-27 15:27 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-27 17:08 ` Grammar John Haltiwanger
2010-07-27 23:10 ` Grammar Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-27 23:40 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-28 9:28 ` Grammar Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-07-28 13:14 ` Grammar Alain Delmotte
2010-07-27 22:57 ` Grammar Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-28 5:00 ` Grammar David Rogers
2010-07-28 12:45 ` Grammar Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-28 9:29 ` Grammar John Haltiwanger
2010-07-28 9:39 ` Grammar Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-07-28 13:00 ` Grammar Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-28 13:12 ` Grammar Marcin Borkowski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-24 22:50 Semantic data in ConTeXt? Matija Šuklje
2010-07-25 21:33 ` Matija Šuklje
2010-07-25 23:47 ` Grammar (was: Semantic data in ConTeXt?) David Rogers
2010-07-26 8:23 ` Matija Šuklje
2010-07-26 9:48 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-07-26 10:06 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-26 10:20 ` Grammar luigi scarso
2010-07-26 11:56 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-26 12:38 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-26 19:33 ` Grammar Martin Schröder
2010-07-26 20:44 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-27 16:53 ` Grammar (was: Semantic data in ConTeXt?) Rory Molinari
2010-07-27 23:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-28 0:00 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-28 9:33 ` Grammar John Haltiwanger
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