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Article #62Re: ASCII for national characters
From: Richard O'Keefe
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 11:11
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 11:11
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In article <2942@psivax.UUCP>, torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer) writes: > What I read is that the ESO got botched. Some national letters > were overlooked, including the slashed o used in Danish and Norwegian > for the umlaut o, written o: in other European languages. In ISO 8859/1, D8 = 216 = upper-case-O-with-a-slash-through-it 16 10 F8 = 248 = lower-case-o-with-a-slash-through it 16 10 > Danes are not likely to tolerate the o: as a substitute, and I doubt > Norwegians are. If they use ISO 8859/1, they don't have to use o: as a substitute. (Now if only 8859/1 had included 66--99 and 6--9 quotation marks...)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!decwrl!wuarchive!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!mudla!ok From: ok@mudla.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters Message-ID: <2766@munnari.oz.au> Date: 21 Nov 89 11:11:37 GMT References: <472@enea.se> <2942@psivax.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Lines: 17