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Article #2483Re: Character representation
From: Sandra Martin
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1987 13:10
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1987 13:10
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Peter O. Mikes @ S-1 Project, LLNL writes:
> So e.g. if switch ( ROM, printwheel,..) is set to German , modified o will
> put two dots ( umlaut) above o; In Czech the same bit will put ' above
> 'aeiou' but will put inverted ^ over consonants ( since only 'aeiou'
> are allowed to have ' and only consonants can have ^, and so it goes.
>
>>But this doesn't
>>address all problems I mentioned. How to construct a general character
>>with an arbitrary accent, umlaut or other diacritic mark? An 8-bit
>>enumarate isn't sufficient.
>
> The problem you (somebody) mentioned is hereby addressed.
> To disprove my conjecture, name one language with Latin-based alphabet
> and one letter in that alphabet, which admits more then one modifier.
French allows an 'e' to take an acute or grave accent, as well as
a circumflex and an umlaut. Examples:
e'cole (school)
privile`ge (privilege)
e^tre (to be)
Noe"l (Christmas)
The 'a', 'i', and 'u' in French also can take multiple diacriticals. And in
Swedish, the 'a' can take a ring or an umlaut. I imagine there are other
examples, but these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
Sandra Martin, Apollo Computer
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