Talk:ISO basic Latin alphabet
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Cursive writing should probably be moved out of each letter's infobox
[edit]For each letter, the top of the infobox is a short gif of how to write this letter in cursive. Cursive writing is increasingly irrelevant these days, so rather than being prominent in the infobox, such a thing should be moved somewhere else on the pages. The same gif already exists in the "History" section for some letters such as R, and it could also perhaps exist in the "Other representations" section. Furthermore, the edits that moved the cursive gif into the infobox were made by a user that was blocked for being a sock puppet. Anyway, thoughts on this change? Aaronfranke (talk) 22:32, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- Probably few people will see your comment here. I'm not sure where the best place to discuss it would be -- maybe Template talk:Infobox grapheme? AnonMoos (talk) 00:36, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
Entry for Romanian
[edit]Romanian uses Latin script and has diacritics similar to other entries on the list. Should it be added to the list or is it different? -- Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandrujuncu (talk o contribs) 05:04, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- Our Romanian alphabet article says that the letters with diacritics are regarded as distinct from the corresponding non-diacritic letters, so Romanian should not be included... AnonMoos (talk) 23:45, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Does the ISO basic Latin alphabet allow diacritical marks?
[edit]It is not clear for me (and I am sure for some other people as well) whether letters with diacritical marks are still a part of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
For example, you want to tell your colleague that he/she should not use any characters for file names other than A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. It is assumed that characters such as the German "ä" are prohibited.
"Hanz, you should not use any characters other than numbers and the ISO basic Latin alphabet." - Whether such a phrase would be correct? -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.69.44.230 (talk) 03:59, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- If they're not considered separate letters in the language involved, then the writing system can be subsumed under Basic Latin (though that's a very different thing from saying that the language can be written correctly with just the Basic Latin characters). AnonMoos (talk) 01:10, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Having been on a 1990s Unix BBS which allowed only the ASCII characters, I can vouch for the system not handling 'international' characters (accented letters etc.) at all well... but workarounds were possible adding marks after the ASCII letters — a/, o^, u:, etc — and of course for umlauts the old telegraphic method was ü → ue, still very common. – .Raven .talk 03:22, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
multigraphs
[edit]What is the point of the "multigraphs" column of the table? What is the criterion for inclusion? English arguably has far more digraphs than the few listed. —Tamfang (talk) 01:12, 29 May 2023 (UTC)