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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?)
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.231640.3959@visix.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 23:16:40 GMT
References: <1840@seti.inria.fr> <722@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se> <1991Jan29.200653.23928@sq.sq.com> <723@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se>
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I object to the idea of leaving out <oe> because it is "unnecessary."
It is still useful, especially when representing printed texts
accurately.  In a similar vein, I'd like to see glyphs for "long s,"
ligatures such as "ct," "st," and so on, without having to resort
to private encodings.
--
Amanda Walker
Visix Software Inc.