Diacritical marks in ASCII

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1 total messages Started by Andre Guirard Fri, 16 Oct 1987 19:11

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Author: Andre Guirard
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1987 19:11

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Dear Net:

Where I work we want to write some programs that produce output in languages
other than English.

Unfortunately, our output device must be any old ASCII terminal the
customer chooses to use.

But when ASCII was designed, it seems nobody thought of any language
other than English, because ASCII doesn't contain certain diacritical
marks used in Swedish, German, etc.

Are there any conventions for representing these characters in ASCII?
For instance, is A" understood to mean A with an umlaut?

Please respond by e-mail.  Please hurry!  Help!


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