Martin Kochanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To clarify: an example of what I mean would be that people got together and > decided "let's represent s-acute by <s'>, z-acute by <z'>, z-dot by <x>, l-slash > by <q>,...". This sounds bizarre, but something like this did actually happen. > You rapidly got used to reading the encoded stuff, as well.
Sounds like VIQR (VIetnamese Quoted Readable), a scheme for writing Vietnamese non-ASCII characters using sequences of ASCII characters. In VIQR, a character like U+1EA5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE (αΊ₯) is written a^'. Some Vietnamese say they can read this notation as easily as the "real" characters. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
