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Article #2488Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?)
From: K P Donnelly
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 1991 19:08
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 1991 19:08
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em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) writes: >No, modern Irish does not have any accented consonants. It does require >the ability to put acute accents on all five vowels, though. Older Irish >writing used a dot above a consonant to indicate lenition, which is now >written as a h after the letter. But this writing uses a special script >which is not in Latin1 anyhow. Agreed, except for the last sentence. It was actually just a special font, like the Fraktur formerly used with German. The character set standards don't cover fonts. Kevin Donnelly
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