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- From: hpa@merle.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.222346.12510@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <1993Jan21.005656.25514@newstand.syr.edu>> <MELBY.93Jan22121143@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp> <1993Jan22.113702.24119@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:23:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.113702.24119@odin.diku.dk> of comp.std.internat,
- klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Just a correction: the Swedish alphabet ends \ringA (]) \"A ([) \"O
- (|). But it was indeed adapted for automatic transcription into and
- from Danish and Norwegian.
-
- /hpa
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