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From: ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Latin-1 and the French language
Keywords: ISO 8859-1, Latin-1
Message-ID: <728@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se>
Date: 3 Feb 91 08:23:15 GMT
Organization: TeleSoft AB, Linkoping, Sweden
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It was recently remarked in comp.text that ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) does
not cover the major Western languages. As an example, it was noted
that the French letter <oe> (ligature of o and e) was not included
in any of the Latin-n tables.

I am trying to find out the reson for this apparent oversight.
Is <oe> an indispensable character in French? 

If anyone out there has any authoritative info about the curious
letter lower case y with dieresis - what language? why no upper-case
form in the Latin tables? - I would be very interested.

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Anders Thulin       ath@linkoping.telesoft.se 
Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden