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- From: "tobias b koehler" <UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
- Subject: ISO code, bold, italic ....
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:55:42 +0100
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- > From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- >
- > Sure, the extended characters can be abbreviated as multi letter combination
- > the toggle could be some sort of combine command. Like \coe\c would mean to
- > combine the oe into an o-umlaut. If the system doesn't have the character tha
- > combination corresponds to, it just ignores it and you get the standard
- > approximation "oe".
-
- Wait a minute. If you use that system you can't distinguish any more
- between the (swedish, german) "o with two dots", the (norwegian,
- danish) "o with slash" and the (french) "oe ligature".
- If we use Warren's system, these three characters can be desribed
- as \c"o\c, \c/o\c and \coe\c; that would allow to distinguish between
- them.
-
- All these three characters are in the ISO 8859.1 charset.
-
- The only reason that I would see for NOT using an 8-bit character
- set is that the 8th bit is stripped when sending an article by e-mail.
-
- In the IBM character set 437 (used by most MS-DOS systems) there is
- only the "o with two dots". The "o with slash" can be converted into
- this one, the "oe ligature" would then be converted into "oe".
-
- > Note that the display program doesn't even have to worry about this. The
- > update program would be the one going through replacing "combination"
- > characters. The display programs wouldn't have to be changed at all.
-
- Right. So we just have to decide if we want to have (a) an 8-bit input
- format, or (b) 7-bit format with combinations described as above.
-
- Regards
-
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