What would computers be like if, instead of ASCII, an Esperanto-based ESCII ENKII would have arisen as the dominant encoding?
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What would computers be like if, instead of ASCII, an Esperanto-based ESCII ENKII would have arisen as the dominant encoding? Would all letter codes have a reserved bit for 'diacritic', except the unqualified 'diacritic' would be a caret for some and a breve for others? Would non-spacing codes for attaching diacritics to letters have become commonplace decades before Unicode? Would there have been a proliferation of Esperano-based futuristic #conlang :s ?
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@riley it might also have resolved sooner the question of whether the "hat" on ĥ /hcircumflex goes balanced on top of the long vertical stem or lower and over the arch shape shared with "n". The typewriterists (me) would argue for the latter, but the former seems slightly more common in current typography.
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@riley In my alternate timeline, Unicode was dominated by Chinese and Japanese engineers who decided to encode Latin, Cyrillic and Greek as a single script; "Α, A and А are clearly the same character, why do they need separate codepoints!"
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@simoncozens Did they encode 'я', the Cyrillic ioticised 'a', as 'a' with a COMBINING IOTICISATION LEFT modifier?
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@drj Considering what people have been doing to the Latin Serbian letters, some would probably argue that when a circumflex is applied to an h, it looks like a 9-shaped comma, only it's still pronounced like a circumflex.
