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In <ENAG.91Feb4001847@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:

>In article <728@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se> ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin) writes:

>> It was recently remarked in comp.text that ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) does
>> not cover the major Western languages. As an example, it was noted
>> that the French letter <oe> (ligature of o and e) was not included
>> in any of the Latin-n tables.

>> I am trying to find out the reason for this apparent oversight.

>While you're at it, can you try to find out what the hell the
>multiplication and division signs are doing in the middle of the
>accented characters, too?


These two things are directly related:  OE and oe were dropped from the
original Latin-1 proposal (at the request of the French representative,
no less, on the grounds that this is a ligature and not a separate letter).

Since the two empty slots had to filled, the multiplication and division signs
were finally chosen out of a number of other possible replacements...