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Article #2422Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?)
From: Anders Thulin
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 08:49
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 08:49
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In article <1840@seti.inria.fr> Philippe.Deschamp@Nuri.INRIA.Fr writes: > Latin-1 does not cover the french language, which is used in France >and other countries (maybe mainly in other countries :-). It lacks >the "oe" ligatures (\oe and \OE of TeX). Last time I looked at a map, >France was in Western Europe... Considering that the OE ligature isn't used in *any* if the 8859/1-8 tables, I can't help wondering if it really is an important character. Perhaps it's a plot to force France out of Western Europe :-) -- Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.telesoft.se Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!mailhost!ath From: ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?) Keywords: \oe, Latin-1, ISO 8859-1 Message-ID: <722@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se> Date: 27 Jan 91 08:49:56 GMT References: <GISLE.91Jan14232159@kyrre.uio.no> <7828@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1840@seti.inria.fr> Organization: TeleSoft AB, Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 16