Re: Latin-1 and the French language

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 1991 04:45

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In article <2078@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) writes:
>Ij is *wrong*. (All non-Dutch atlases show the lake of Ijsselmeer and the
>city of Ijmuiden, while the real names are IJsselmeer and IJmuiden.) ...

Let us not be too dogmatic about this.  The Times Atlas of the World gets
it right, and I could have sworn the Times isn't Dutch... :-)
-- 
"Maybe we should tell the truth?"      | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
"Surely we aren't that desperate yet." |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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