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From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: more diacritical marks...
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 11:16:55 EDT
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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
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