Copyright 2002 William Overington

Monday 21 October 2002

Here are a few sentences so as to carry out some initial experiments with the comet circumflex system.

Firstly some sentences which do not have a parameter.

comet circumflex code	English localization
21011	It is raining.
21012	It is snowing.
21111	It is not raining.
21112	It is not snowing.
21511	Is it raining?
21512	Is it snowing?
21751	What is the temperature there please?
21752	What is the temperature there please in degrees Celsius?
21753	What is the temperature there please in degrees Fahrenheit?
22011	Thank you for responding to my enquiry.

Now some sentences which have one parameter.

comet circumflex code	nature of parameter 1	English localization
21852	Any numerical value, possibly decimal, positive or negative, expressed as a string of digit characters.	The temperature here is P1 degrees Celsius.
21853	Any numerical value, possibly decimal, positive or negative, expressed as a string of digit characters.	The temperature here is P1 degrees Fahrenheit.

In order to send a message to someone asking the question

Is it snowing?

one needs to send a comet circumflex key followed by the number 21512 followed by a comet circumflex on a screen.

That is a sequence of the following eleven Unicode characters.

U+2604 U+0302 U+20E3 U+0032 U+0031 U+0035 U+0031 U+0032 U+2604 U+0302 U+20E2

Here is a link to a web page which contains that sequence of characters, with no font specified for the sequence.

c_c00101.htm

In order to send the message

The temperature here is 21.7 degrees Celsius.

one needs to send a comet circumflex key followed by the number 21852 followed by a U+2460 character followed by the number 21.7 followed by a comet circumflex on a screen.

That is a sequence of the following 16 Unicode characters.

U+2604 U+0302 U+20E3 U+0032 U+0031 U+0038 U+0035 U+0032 U+2460 U+0032 U+0031 U+002E U+0037 U+2604 U+0302 U+20E2

Here is a link to a web page which contains that sequence of characters, with no font specified for the sequence.

c_c00102.htm

The comet circumflex system will reach a stage of achievement once two people who share no common language can communicate with each other using the comet circumflex system, each of them using tables in their own language.

Into which languages, if any, will these tables be translated? Which language will be the first to have translated tables available?

As research into the comet circumflex system gets underway, those are fascinating questions.

The comet_circumflex system.

Copyright 2002 William Overington

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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/c_c00100.htm