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From: dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math)
Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1)
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 05:35:23 GMT

In article <1991Apr17.170515.2058@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:
>>5) Why does the standard contain the diacritical marks in separate symbol
>>   positions, when they are also found as parts of letters? ...
>
>Presumably as an escape hatch so that languages not considered in the design
>of Latin 1 can still be written, albeit clumsily.
No.
These are _spacing_ diacritics and cannot be combined with letters in ISO 8859.
>-- 
>And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
Dimitri Vulis
CUNY GC Math
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