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- From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.113702.24119@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:37:02 GMT
- References: <1gi57dEINN2p7@uni-erlangen.de> <1992Dec14.161106.8111@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan3.013554.521@newstand.syr.edu> <1993Jan21.005656.25514@newstand.syr.edu> <MELBY.93Jan22121143@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>
- Sender: klaus@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 23
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- melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby) writes:
-
- >The Northern European subsets of ISO 646 are 7-bit codes, so there
- >is no high bit to be stripped. Although they are relatively
- >obsolete, they are commonly used on the net, partially because
- >the net is not 8-bit transparent, and partially because they are
- >easily recognizable even by users with ASCII fonts.
-
- >[ { = AE or A:, ae or a:
- >] } = AA aa (more precisely, aring, a.k.a. Angstrom symbol)
- >\ | = O/ or O:, o/ or o:
-
- The assignment of the Danish/Norwegian letters are very logical.
-
- ae, o/ and aa follows z in that order in the alphabet, so they
- get the next characters after z {|}. The Swedish alphabet,
- however, ends "o, "a, aa. So in "Swedish ASCII", the
- letters are not even in alphabetical order. Someone must
- have decided that it was more important to have Swedish
- letters print as the letters with the same pronounciation
- on Danish and Norwegian printers.
-
- Klaus O K
-