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Article #229Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet
From: Michael Wagner
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1986 21:50
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1986 21:50
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In article <163@dg_rtp.UUCP> goudreau@dg_rtp.UUCP (Bob Goudreau) writes: > (...) The important issue is its distinction from plain "e" >or even from similar (but not identical) looking accents like the Hungarian >dieresis. > >Bob Goudreau Well, my Hungarian dictionary, having been written to enable Hungarians to learn English rather than to enable me to understand Hungarian, doesn't give the proper name for these symbols. But there are two of them. One which looks like an oomlaut (although it has a different name), and one where the two dots are stretched into lines that slope up and to the right. The second form lengthens the vowel but otherwise keeps it sounding like the oomlaut form. Michael
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.uucp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcs!wagner From: wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet Message-ID: <1118@utcs.uucp> Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 16:50:01 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.1118 Posted: Sat Feb 22 16:50:01 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Feb-86 16:52:59 EST References: <157@decvax.UUCP> <1166@utai.UUCP> <163@decvax.UUCP> Reply-To: wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) Distribution: net Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 17