Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:45:50 09/12/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 19:28:41, Steven Edwards wrote: >On September 10, 2003 at 19:19:32, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>On September 10, 2003 at 18:56:00, Steven Edwards wrote: >>>On September 10, 2003 at 09:05:39, Alastair Scott wrote: > >>>>One big omission in all the standards, which I'm amazed nobody else seems to >>>>have mentioned, is internationalisation (including Unicode support). The general >>>>assumption is that the piece letters will be English piece letters. >>> >>>This was handled in the original discussions and the general agreement was to >>>use English piece cahracter identifier letters as being the best compromise. >> >>Yes, but that was 10 years ago! :-) > >Longer actually, as SAN was done prior to PGN. > >There was the suggestion to abandon English tag names in favor of Latin or even >Loglan. Although I took a few years of the former and am a fan of both, I have >somehow resisted implementing either of them. > >But a Latin or Loglan scheme would have the advantage of pleasing everyone to an >equal (but negative) extent. Please don't overlook my comments re: NAGs. I believe that is the single most important issue mentioned (that defacto use is incompatible with the standard). Dave
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