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Re: Character representation

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From: Dean Gahlon
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1987 17:12
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in article <15381@mordor.s1.gov], pom@under..ARPA (Peter O. Mikes) says:
] 
]  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.
] [random stuff deleted] 
]  
]  ( I am not quite sure if all mono-anglo-phones realise that english is
]  actually using pairs for sounds ( english sh  is perverse Hungarian's sz
]  is actualy one sound (soft s or s^). 

	You mentioned it yourself - Hungarian. (O, for instance, has 
both long and short umlauts).
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Subject: Re: Character representation
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