Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!dave From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: more diacritical marks... Message-ID: <268@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 11:16:55 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.268 Posted: Wed Aug 21 11:16:55 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:30:14 EDT References: <487@talcott.UUCP> <1561@utah-gr.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 20 I think that the less red-necked among us will admit that English (or American English) is not spoken or written everywhere, and the other 80% of the world isn't about to change their languages to accomodate, right? Well, Europeans are really good at coming up with alternate standards. Is any work being done in Europe to create a character set that will make most everyone in Europe happy? There are 128 unused slots in the ASCII character set -- I don't see why an ESCII set couldn't just put the necessary characters in between the equivalent characters in the ASCII set (the spanish 'll' could be fun though, remember, that's one letter). I don't know the specifics on Northern European languages, but if the letter 'A' remains the first letter and 'Z' the last, well-written programs should still run with this new character set with nothing worse than re-compilation. -- Dave Cohrs (608) 262-1204 ...!{harvard,ihnp4,seismo,topaz}!uwvax!dave dave@wisc-romano.arpa