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Article #768Languages using unaccented Latin chars
From: David Eppstein
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1987 04:38
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1987 04:38
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Jerry Schwarz quotes from a draft of the Rationale of the proposed ANSI C standard, section 4.4: > > The English language uses 26 letters derived from the > Latin alphabet. The set of letters suffices for English, > Swahili, and Hawaiian; all other living languages use > either the Latin aphabet plus other characters, or other > non Latin aphabets or syllabaries. Maori (similar to Hawaiian but a living language in its own right) also uses unaccented Latin. No doubt other examples exist. A little exaggeration is not in itself a bad thing, but in a standard? -- David Eppstein, eppstein@cs.columbia.edu, Columbia U. Computer Science Dept.
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