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In article <120@quick.COM> srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett) writes:
: I'm the one who posted the remark about English and Russian being the only
: two languages written using unaccented alphabets.  Perhaps I should have
: made the distinction more clear.  By "unaccented" I meant "written without
: overstrikes" and "sorted one letter at a time in a fixed order".  ...
: ...         We use accents in English only to write foreign words
: which use modified Roman alphabets.  We transliterate other languages
: because a) few people would even be able to pronounce the words, much less
: understand them and b) we often don't have the facilities to render other
: writing schemes.  The Russian letters "yo" and "e kratkoe" are not accented
: letters by this definition.  They have their own keys on typewriters, their
: own place in the collating sequence, and presumably their own values in
: whatever character code Russian computers use (RSCII ?).  ...

Using this definition, German also is unaccented. The "Umlaut" Characters
have their own keys ond are not produced by overstriking. They also have
their own ASCII values (different ones in the normal and the IBM world).

-rm
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