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Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)

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From: H. Peter Anvin N9ITP
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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From: hpa@merle.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
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