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From: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <8579@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 20 Jun 91 11:42:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.172306.19724@uwasa.fi> <3274@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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In article <3274@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
[...]
>Well, even though we want to be able to use 8-bit text in editors, terminal
>emulators and such programs, 8-bit filenames are a very low priority.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In addition to the sample code that will be posted demonstrating
proper Icelandic and Norse character handling, a list of the
applications arranged from high to low priority would be helpful to
us US programmers, so we'd know where to spend our time...

regards,

pete

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