From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60422 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Reutenauer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Grammar Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20100727133136.GA5455@phare.normalesup.org> References: <20100727084715.GD26009@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> Reply-To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280237517 11398 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2010 13:31:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:31:57 +0000 (UTC) To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 27 15:31:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdkG7-0003jX-Md for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1EA4C9CF3; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id u+oJQ9hczf83; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365A1C9CDE; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B37C9CDE for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id KfA7lGth531a for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nef2.ens.fr (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.40]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCC4C9CD9 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from phare.normalesup.org (phare.normalesup.org [129.199.129.80]) by nef2.ens.fr (8.13.6/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id o6RDVh4A078545 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: by phare.normalesup.org (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 7B8A8BC1BE; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.1.4 (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:31:43 +0200 (CEST) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:60422 Archived-At: > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________