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Substitutions of the Esperanto alphabet

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42: 161:(French computer keyboards, unlike manual typewriters, typically assign the circumflex only to letters that bear it in French orthography), various alternative methods have been devised for inputting them or substituting them in type. The original method, suggested by Zamenhof for people who did not have access to a French typewriter, was a set of 604:
has issued general permission for the use of surrogate systems for the representation of the diacritical letters of Esperanto, under the condition that this is being done only "when the circumstances do not permit the use of proper diacritics, and when due to a special need the h-system fixed in the
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3) Se ia el la tipografioj ne povas presi verkojn kun signetoj superliteraj (^) kaj (˘), ĝi povas anstataŭigi la signeton (^) per la litero "h" kaj la signeton (˘) tute ne uzadi. Sed en la komenco de tia verko devas esti presita: "ch=ĉ; gh=ĝ; hh=ĥ; jh=ĵ; sh=ŝ". Se oni bezonas presi ion kun signetoj
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in Esperanto). Any automatic conversion of the text will alter the French words as well as the Esperanto. A few English words like "auxiliary" and "Euxine" can also suffer from such search-and-replace routines. One common solution, such as the one used in
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workarounds used in email or on the internet, where the proper letters are often not supported, as seen also in non-ASCII orthographies such as German. These "slipped-hat" conventions make use of the
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that can be used in combination with any other key. In handwritten Esperanto, the diacritics pose no problem. However, since the Esperanto letters with diacritics do not appear on standard computer
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internaj (,), oni devas ĝin fari garde, ke la leganto ne prenu ilin por komoj (,). Anstataŭ la signeto (,) oni povas ankaŭ presadi (') aŭ (-). Ekzemple: sign,et,o = sign'et'o = sig-net-o.
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The diacritics of Esperanto were designed with a French manual typewriter in mind, as French was the international language at the time Esperanto was developed. French typewriters have a
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Fundamento is not convenient." This provision covers situations such as using the x-system as a technical solution (to store data in plain ASCII) yet still displaying proper
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had proposed shifting the caret onto the following vowel, since French circumflex vowels are supported in printing houses. That is, one would write
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A practical problem of digraph substitution that the x-system does not completely resolve is in the complication of bilingual texts.
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digraphs. Another system sometimes noted is a 'QWXY system'; this is a carry-over from an early Esperanto keyboard app named
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Cê la sângôj okazintaj en la cî-landa vojkodo, cîuj automobilistoj zorge informigû pri la jûsaj instrukcioj.
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The x-system has become as popular as the h-system, but it has long been perceived as being contrary to the
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The digraphs are now nearly always correctly sorted after their single-letter counterparts; for example,
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There are two alternative orthographies in common use, which replace the circumflex letters with either
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For example: eĥoŝanĝoj ĉiuĵaŭde ("echo-change every Thursday") becomes "exosyangyoj cyiujyawde".
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is especially problematic when used alongside French text, because many French words end in
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and more easily customized computer keyboards, the need for such workarounds has lessened.
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A more recent system for typing in Esperanto is the so-called "x-system", which uses
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is not a letter in the Esperanto alphabet, so its use introduces no ambiguity.
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However, they have generally fallen out of favor. Before the internet age,
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to resolve this problem, but this variant of the system is rarely used.
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comes before it. The sorting only fails in the infrequent case of a
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in compound or unassimilated words; for example, the compound word
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that have diacritics, as well as a number of graphic work-arounds.
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sign (>) to represent the circumflex. For example,
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ASCII
Esperanto alphabet
dead key
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digraphs
"h-system"
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Unicode
Ĉapelilo
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ISO 15924
diacritics
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digraphs
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