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Article #69Re: ASCII for national characters
From: Paul Pedersen
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1989 14:01
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1989 14:01
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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.
>It does not help that the upper case variety of that letter is rather
>close to the slashed zero used in USA to tell it from the letter O.
>Danes are not likely to tolerate the o: as a substitute, and I doubt
>Norwegians are. WW2 and 1905 and such.
>
>Can anybody confirm?
>
>Torkil Hammer
I've got ISO 8859-1:1987(E) "Latin alphabet No.1" in front of me and see
both character you say are missing :
pos char
F6 small o umlaut
D6 big o umlaut
F8 small o slashed
D8 big o slashed
Did I misunderstand your question ?
Paul
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