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Article #266Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1)
From: Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 05:35
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 05:35
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In article <1991Apr17.170515.2058@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes: >>5) Why does the standard contain the diacritical marks in separate symbol >> positions, when they are also found as parts of letters? ... > >Presumably as an escape hatch so that languages not considered in the design >of Latin 1 can still be written, albeit clumsily. No. These are _spacing_ diacritics and cannot be combined with letters in ISO 8859. >-- >And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology >"beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry Dimitri Vulis CUNY GC Math DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET DLV@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU
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Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!eleni.gc.cuny.edu!timessqr.gc.cuny.edu!cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu!DLV From: dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math) Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1) Message-ID: <1991Apr27.053523.17867@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu> Sender: news@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu Organization: Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y. New York NY 10036 References: <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk>,<1991Apr17.170515.2058@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 05:35:23 GMT