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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Typography: accented letters
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 22:20:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 22:20:17 1986
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Foreign-language typewriters use different approaches, depending
on the specific language.  My Swedish typewriter has separate
keys for <A">, <O">, <A-ring>, and (maybe) <U-umlaut>.  It also
has a "dead-key" for acute- and grave- accent.  Esperanto isn't
widely used, and probably had no representatives on the ISO/CBEMA
committee.  There are procedures in place for additional character
sets, so an Esperanto standard committee could create a registered
character set.

Dec's current terminals (VT200 family) have the capability of
generating and displaying both National Character Sets and
the Dec-Multinational set that is very similar to Latin-1.
The keyboard can generate all of the national letters, even
if they don't appear on the keys.  This means that I can
write Swedish on my USA keyboard, and write C programs on
a Swedish National keyboard (that lacks braces and brackets).

For the record, the above are my opinions and not an official
statement of Digital Equipment Corporation.

Martin Minow
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