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- From: ingvar@ufs.uf.se (Ingvar Mattsson)
- Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.180548.20455@ufs.uf.se>
- Organization: Unga Forskare Stockholmsdistriktet
- References: <1gi57dEINN2p7@uni-erlangen.de> <1992Dec14.161106.8111@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan3.013554.521@newstand.syr.edu> <1993Jan21.005656.25514@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:05:48 GMT
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- ddawson@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Dick Dawson) writes:
-
- (stuff deleted)
- >Another interesting bit: Some news postings have various punctuations
- >in the places of Scandinavian characters that do not exist in the
- >American alphabet. I don't remember the equivalences. They always
- >show as the puncutations, curly braces, vertical bar, etc, on my
- >terminals and on the Xerox 4075 laser printer I usually use. No
- >surprise, as the data links at Syracuse Univ. are all 7bit. Except,
- >apparently to a HP Laserjet/Postscript printer... where the actual
- >Scandinavian characters appear, about half of the time. I'm guessing:
- >some writers are substituting US punctuations and probably are on
- >machines that can't generate Scandinavian characters but others are
- >apparently using machines that actually do create Scandinavian
- >characters and are sending them in postings; they appear as US
- >punctuations when the high bit is stripped.
-
- Well, some of us in Sweden use the old (at least 8 years old) standard
- that replaces "a-diaresis" with "{", "a-ring" with "}" and
- "o-diaresis" with "|". Normal rules apply to convert from/to UPPER.
- Usually when I encounter "swedish characters with their high bit
- stripped" they appear as "d", "e", "v" and that makes for fascinating
- problems in reading them.
-
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- + Ingvar Mattsson + I would like to be a fish, for they have no problems. +
- + Vasav{gen 83 + You are not a fish, how do you know about their mind? +
- + 175 32 J[RF[LLA + You are not me, how do you know what I know? +
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