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Thread #39343 Message #627810
Posted By: Haruo
14-Jan-02 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: A bit of hymnic braggadocio
Subject: RE: A bit of hymnic braggadocio
Actually, Bald Eagle, no Esperanto letter has an accent mark on it. I know that sounds like a blatant lie, but it's actually the truth. In Esperanto c and ĉ are two separate letters (just as in English we don't call Q as "O with a tail"). But they sure the heck look like accent marks, and they sure the heck have caused printers, typesetters, and HTML artists (prior to Unicode) egregious headaches. I agree that if I'd been devising the language in the first place I would have stuck to the standard Latin alphabet.