Xref: utzoo soc.culture.nordic:1622 comp.std.internat:563 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!sics.se!sics.se!matsc From: matsc@sics.se (Mats Carlsson) Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ASCII for national characters Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 89 08:25:41 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> Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: magnus@rhi.hi.is's message of 25 Nov 89 15:40:51 GMT In article <1383@krafla.rhi.hi.is> magnus@rhi.hi.is (Magnus Gislason) writes: You should know that the Icelandic alphabet does not include C, Q, W and Z, and thus only contains 32 characters. :-) Really? Wasn't it quite recently that a spelling reform said words like "yzt" should be spelled with an s instead of a z, reverting an earlier law which banned writing s instead of z? Didn't Halldor Laxness even spend some time in prison for this "crime"? -- Mats Carlsson SICS, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, Sweden Internet: matsc@sics.se Tel: +46 8 7521543 Ttx: 812 61 54 SICS S Fax: +46 8 7517230