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From: magnus@rhi.hi.is (Magnus Gislason)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters
Message-ID: <1383@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 25 Nov 89 15:40:51 GMT
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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. :-)