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From: yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly)
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Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue (Really: Does Latin-1 cover Western Europe ?)
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Date: 6 Feb 91 19:08:15 GMT
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em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) writes:

>No, modern Irish does not have any accented consonants.  It does require
>the ability to put acute accents on all five vowels, though.  Older Irish
>writing used a dot above a consonant to indicate lenition, which is now
>written as a h after the letter.  But this writing uses a special script
>which is not in Latin1 anyhow.

Agreed, except for the last sentence.  It was actually just a special
font, like the Fraktur formerly used with German.  The character set
standards don't cover fonts.

   Kevin Donnelly