Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw2!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1) Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 22:16:38 GMT References: <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 3, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: daffy In-reply-to: ct@dde.dk's message of 16 Apr 91 22:04:22 JST >1) What is the currency symbol used for? And who uses it? Your guess is as good as mine.... >2) What are the feminine and masculine ordinal indicators used for? > (The symbols in position 0xaa and 0xba that look like a small > underlined a and o.) I believe they are used in Spanish, is that > true and for what purpose? They are used to change a cardinal number into an ordinal (e.g. 1o -> primo = "first"). >3) What is the pilcrow sign used for? And who uses it? I have seen it used as a paragraph indicator. >4) Do the Germans consider the double-s (position 0xdf) a lower-case > letter, or is it both upper and lower case? I'm only three-eighths German, but my guess is that it is both. It does not appear at the beginning of a word, so the only time it is found in upper case is when a whole word is capitalized. (No "ligature wars," please... :-) ) >5) Why does the standard contain the diacritical marks in separate symbol > positions, when they are also found as parts of letters? ... Perhaps for use in modern printer terminals with non-destructive backspaces? :-) ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet.uu.net