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From: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Simple UNICODE question
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Date: 17 Apr 91 20:51:52 GMT
References: <SHEPARD.91Apr10171132@finch.pa.dec.com> <3039@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <ENAG.91Apr12174723@maud.ifi.uio.no>
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In article <3039@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
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>	   Are the special characters used by Esperanto included ?
>
They seem to be.  The h^, j^, u(breve), etc. are all there, with the
notation "Esperanto".  The standard seems terribly complete, modulo
some statements here about poor Vietnamese support.  It even includes
the special "long" forms of the umlauted o and u found only(?) in
Hungarian.  For my money, Unicode seems like a much better idea than
some of the horrible stateful, variable width, alternatives...

Jim
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