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Esperanto on the Web

Because ASCII-only e-mail clients are still in use, work-arounds are often necessary on the Web. The iksa-sistemo (x-convention) is a way of writing Esperanto that is compatible with ASCII-only systems such as certain e-mail clients. Since Esperanto does not use the letter X in its native words, many Esperanto enthusiasts have taken to using the letter to signal a diacritical mark that is not available in 7-bit ASCII, placing the "x" after the letter that would have the diacritic in a Unicode-compliant application.

For example, the Section 3 of the Declaration of Boulogne reads in part:

Ĉar la aŭtoro de la lingvo Esperanto tuj en la komenco rifuzis unu fojon por ĉiam ĉiujn personajn rajtojn kaj privilegiojn rilate tiun lingvon, tial Esperanto estas nenies propraĵo.

Using the x-convention to transmit the document over 7-bit ASCII e-mail, the excerpt would read:

Cxar la auxtoro de la lingvo Esperanto tuj en la komenco rifuzis unu fojon por cxiam cxiujn personajn rajtojn kaj privilegiojn rilate tiun lingvon, tial Esperanto estas nenies proprajxo.

Just six mass replace operations would be necessary on either end.

External links

The Wiki Esperanto Textbook
Beginners Esperanto Forum
The Esperanto Teacher, A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians at Project Gutenberg
The Esperanto Book by Don Harlow
Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village by Sylvan Zaft
About Language Problems by Claude Piron
The Esperanto Department at Wikiversity -- partially developed
Lernu : Free multilingual website for learning Esperanto.
www.Duolingo.com : Free multilingual website for learning Esperanto among other languages.

Jan 2020 --It seems that several of the links no longer work. Lernu and Duolingo do work.
Gutenberg.org has dozens of free downloadable Esperanto books -- Search "Esperanto."