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From: ef@tools.uucp (Edgar Fuss)
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Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1)
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Date: 18 Apr 91 12:47:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: ct@dde.dk's message of 16 Apr 91 13:04:22 GMT

>1) What is the currency symbol used for? And who uses it?
Isn't that Swedish or Norvegian currency (Ore or Oere or whatever it's called)?

>4) Do the Germans consider the double-s (position 0xdf) a lower-case
>   letter, or is it both upper and lower case?
It's a lowercase letter. Since it never appears at the beginning of a word, thre's
no reason to capitalize it (unless you capitalize the whole word, in which case
it convertes to ``SS''.