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Article #2473Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?)
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 21:11
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 21:11
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In article <ENAG.91Feb4003441@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: >Most of these weird ligatures are covered in ISO DIS 10646. Granted, and I definitely think that 10646 (or something similar, like Unicode) is the only effective approach for many applications. It certainly looks like an improvement over ISO IS 2022 :)... Don't get me wrong--I like the ISO 8859 code sets, as far as they go. What I was objecting to was the idea that "archaic" characters weren't useful to represent in electronic form. I admit that I may have overreacted; I just have strong opinions about the matter. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- Courage is the willingness of a person to stand up for his beliefs in the face of great odds. Chutzpah is doing the same thing wearing a Mickey Mouse hat.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?) Message-ID: <1991Feb4.211114.19161@visix.com> Date: 4 Feb 91 21:11:14 GMT References: <723@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se> <1991Feb1.231640.3959@visix.com> <ENAG.91Feb4003441@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 19