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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <1386@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 25 Nov 89 16:12:30 GMT
References: <472@enea.se> <1353@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <2360@draken.nada.kth.se> <1373@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1383@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1383@krafla.rhi.hi.is> magnus@rhi.hi.is (Magnus Gislason) writes:
>heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) writes:
>
>[Talking about the Icelandic alphabet]
>
>>The first point is certainly true, our alphabet has 36 characters, which
>>means that we need 20 characters (uc+lc) that are not in ASCII. I would
>
>You should know that the Icelandic alphabet does not include C, Q, W and Z,
>and thus only contains 32 characters. :-)


I will most definitely not write 'pizza' as 'pissa' :-)

(Besides 'pissa' has another meaning in icelandic as well)


But I'm really pissed off (no 'pizza' here :-) about 'americaned' software which
does not allow us here in Iceland to use our full national character set.
For example, DBase-III does not allow the big 'thorn', but instead considers 
that as a end-of-file.  Meaning that whatever comes after the big thorn is
ignored.

Some editors choke or perform some unwanted commands, whenever the special
icelandic characters are used, like 'kill-file', 'save-and-quit' and other 
nasties like that.

If there are any software-writers out there, please consider us Icelanders
(and other), that must use 8-bit character set.

While you are doing that, could you consider adding some 'sorting tables' so
that we can sort our applications in the icelandic way. ????????????????????


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