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Article #550Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
From: H. Peter Anvin N9ITP
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:23
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:23
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In article <1993Jan22.113702.24119@odin.diku.dk> of comp.std.internat,
klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen) writes:
>
> ae, o/ and aa follows z in that order in the alphabet, so they
> get the next characters after z {|}. The Swedish alphabet,
> however, ends "o, "a, aa. So in "Swedish ASCII", the
> letters are not even in alphabetical order. Someone must
> have decided that it was more important to have Swedish
> letters print as the letters with the same pronounciation
> on Danish and Norwegian printers.
>
Just a correction: the Swedish alphabet ends \ringA (]) \"A ([) \"O
(|). But it was indeed adapted for automatic transcription into and
from Danish and Norwegian.
/hpa
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Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!merle.acns.nwu.edu!hpa From: hpa@merle.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news) Message-ID: <1993Jan23.222346.12510@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Nntp-Posting-Host: unseen3.acns.nwu.edu Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Organization: You must be kidding! References: <1993Jan21.005656.25514@newstand.syr.edu>> <MELBY.93Jan22121143@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp> <1993Jan22.113702.24119@odin.diku.dk> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:23:46 GMT Lines: 19