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Article #205Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet
From: Mike Urban
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1986 16:48
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1986 16:48
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In article <402@snow.warwick.UUCP> kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) writes: > >>In preparing for Latin-1, you should carefully go over your programs >>to remove any instance of "high-bit used for a flag". > >Ho Boy! isn't vi going to need rewriting... > And everything else. But is Latin-1 really suitable as a replacement for any particular national character set? In particular, it doesn't collate correctly for any single country's alphabetization scheme, except of course the English-speakers. And just think of the rewrites for "isalpha" and all that stuff... I think we have a mess on our hands. -- Mike Urban ...!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban "You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp2.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet Message-ID: <866@spp2.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 11:48:45 EST Article-I.D.: spp2.866 Posted: Sat Feb 8 11:48:45 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 06:26:34 EST References: <157@decvax.UUCP> <1166@utai.UUCP> <163@decvax.UUCP> <402@snow.warwick.UUCP> Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban) Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 21