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From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
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Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?)
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Date: 30 Jan 91 19:42:42 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Philippe.Deschamp@Nuri.INRIA.Fr's message of 17 Jan 91 16:39:14 GMT
Originator: enag@svarte.ifi.uio.no

Philippe,

The oe ligature is precisely a ligature, very much unlike the ae used
in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland (perhaps others).  oe is not a single
character any more than the ligatures, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl are.  oe
does not influence collation order, but is spelled out.  Notice that
it's not an error to write "oeuvre" instead of "<oe>uvre" (where <> is
used to denote a ligature).  It's very much an error to write "aere"
instead of "<ae>re" in Norwegian, not uncommon but still gross ASCII
abuse to the contrary notwithstanding.

I've gleamed this gem from participation in numerous mailing lists,
but I've forgot precisely which one.  Most probably from the ISO 10646
list on BITNET somewhere.

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