Re: Letters with **three** cases?


Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Des Small:

> > People say "SMS". This is true in Germany as well as Hong Kong.
>
> Germany _and_ Hong Kong! That's pretty much everywhere where the
> Engleesh is spoke, after all.

LSD is very cosmopolitan in his parochialism.

> [...] (Japan doesn't use SMS last I heard, either. When my sister was
> there her phone did honest-to-goodness email.)

An SMS has 910 bits of content--the European encoding is mostly seven-bit
per character, giving the 130 chars figure that people were limited to
before their phones learned to chain them--and that translates to ~56 UTF-16
characters, even more uncomfortably short than the figure for Roman-alphabet
languages. So, as far as I can work out, the Japanese mobile companies just
said “SMS is not good enough, the email standard already exists and takes
trivial amounts of bandwidth, let’s do that instead.” Eminently sensible,
IMO.

> Des
> communicates asynchronously in real time too

ACK

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