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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet
Message-ID: <402@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 19:00:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 19:00:12 1986
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In article <163@decvax.UUCP> minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin minow) writes,
apologising in advance for inexactitudes, as he is doing it from memory,
and I (little smartass!) step in for a couple of corrections and a swipe
at my antepenultimately loathed editor:


>  Y-umlaut and y-umlaut (French, also used for the ij ligature in Dutch)

Since when has French used umlaute?

>For example, lower-case accented letters
>generally lose their accents in French

*Upper*-case letters in French usually lose their accents.

>In preparing for Latin-1, you should carefully go over your programs
>to remove any instance of "high-bit used for a flag".

Ho Boy!  isn't vi going to need rewriting...

						Kay.
-- 
Virtue is its own punishment.
			... mcvax!ukc!warwick!kay