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Re: Cleanicode

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From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:25
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In article <75sqXB1w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
	kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:

>Greek, Latin and Cyrillic are three different *alphabets*.
>
>When I say "alphabets" I'm referring to a small number of characters with

I can't understand why it must be "a small number". Anyway,

>an order that allow the "user" of such an alphabet to write text in their
>language. At least some characters in the above mentioned alphabets look
>different and have different meanings or can't be found in all alphabets.

German alphabet has a character "A with umlaut" which can't be found in
French alphabet.

They are, by your definition, different alphabets.

Why you unify German alphabet and French alphabet, then?

>Additionally the ease of conversion (from ISO 8859-x) is important, too.

Of course, the ease off conversion from ISO 2022 conformant text
using all of GB, JIS and KCS is is also important.

						Masataka Ohta
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