Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ifi!enag From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Latin-1 and the French language Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 91 01:30:18 GMT References: <728@castor.linkoping.telesoft.se> <1991Feb7.015202.29053@contact.uucp> Sender: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: egr@contact.uucp's message of 7 Feb 91 01:52:02 GMT In article <1991Feb7.015202.29053@contact.uucp>, Gordan Palameta writes: >These two things are directly related: OE and oe were dropped from >the original Latin-1 proposal (at the request of the French >representative, no less, on the grounds that this is a ligature and >not a separate letter). Sigh! If the French attempt to boycott ISO 8859-1 as the one-octet default for ISO 10646, and want their own ISO 8859-n (for some large n) why can't we just "update" ISO 8859-1 by re-inserting those OE and oe ligatures right in the middle of the other "O with random squiggle" series? I'm not impressed by this counter-productivity and random politicking. -- [Erik Naggum] Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway