Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Latin-1 and the French language Message-ID: <1991Feb7.044500.23652@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <728@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se> <2078@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 1991 04:45:00 GMT In article <2078@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) writes: >Ij is *wrong*. (All non-Dutch atlases show the lake of Ijsselmeer and the >city of Ijmuiden, while the real names are IJsselmeer and IJmuiden.) ... Let us not be too dogmatic about this. The Times Atlas of the World gets it right, and I could have sworn the Times isn't Dutch... :-) -- "Maybe we should tell the truth?" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Surely we aren't that desperate yet." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry