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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
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Subject: Re: Are the funny letters really needed?
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 12:00:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 12:00:57 1986
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Summary: 

>>letters.  I'm just saying that the meaning would be clear.  For an ATM,
>>that's probably good enough.

I agree that it's perhaps unambiguous, but the use of all caps and of 1970
style displays is not very engaging.

While we are on the topic of diacritics, I'd like to know what people in
Europe do with electronic mail?  I usually leave out the accents when I send
e-mail in French, since the cases where ambiguous meanings result are few
and far between.  A native speaker usually has no problem with this.  Not
that I have the choice of not omitting them, unfortunately.  Terminals with
the capability to display French are not widespread, and even then they fail
to agree on a common standard...

The French researchers I've met seem at home on QWERTY keyboards, which leads
me to believe that they don't use the AZERTY layout.  Is this true? Does word
processing hardware use the AZERTY layout?

How many people in Europe actually use computer terminals with the proper
layout for their language?



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Jean-Francois Lamy              
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,         
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle,  U. de Montreal.

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