We are a bit surprised to see some people arguing against an approval of lphbet as ISO standard. These people claim that using lphbet makes it hard to differentiate between terms such as hat and hit. This is obviously nonsense! In terms of lphbet, hat can be reduced to ht, while the term hit is not changed. Hence, both terms can be easily differentiated.
In addition, some people argue that a particular lake called Aa-See in Muenster (Germany) will be spelled See using lphbet. See however is simply the German term for lake. Okay, this might turn out to be a problem for people from Muenster - but an international standard can not be directed towards satisfying some personal needs!
Think of Microsoft's new OpenXML format (also proposed for standardization by ISO). This document format is not able to handle dates before 1900. If you are trying to solve a task such as "How many days did the Spanish War last, which started on 2nd May 1808 and ended on the 30th of October 1813?" (read more...) using the new MS Excel, you will get no result. It turns out that this is neither a problem for the German DIN nor the Swedish SIS. So why should lphbet be affected by a small city and its even smaller lake?
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