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From: root@ambush.dk (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,sci.astro
Subject: Re: Internationalization of Software?
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Date: 2 Jul 89 15:38:06 GMT
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Organization: AmbraSoft, Holte, Denmark
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Make sure that your software is able to support 8 bit IBM ASCII and
not only 7 bit that only has [, \, ], {, |, and } because a _LOT_ of
european contries use special characters. For instance in Denmark we
use the concanation of: AE, OE, AA, ae, oe and AA (that is the old
writing style, now its: A and E put together, O with a slash, A with a
little circle on top, ae put together, o with a slash and a with a
little circle on top!). And that isn't that bad! If your application
is able to sort text THEN you got trouble!!! The three Danish letters
is just appended to the alphabet after Z but some other contries
insert characters different places!!!

  Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Roejelskaer 15, DK-2840 Holte, Denmark
 UUCP: leif@ambra.dk, phone: +45 42424 111, touch phone: +45 42422 817+313

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