Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Questions about LATIN-1 (8859-1)
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.184000.26077@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 18:40:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.130422.16607@dde.dk> <1991Apr17.170515.2058@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr27.053523.17867@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr27.053523.17867@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu> dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu writes:
>>>5) Why does the standard contain the diacritical marks ...
>>
>>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.

Uh, character code 010 is backspace, which makes such combination eminently
possible.
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