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From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet
Message-ID: <866@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 11:48:45 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 11:48:45 1986
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References: <157@decvax.UUCP> <1166@utai.UUCP> <163@decvax.UUCP> <402@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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In article <402@snow.warwick.UUCP> kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) writes:
>
>>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...
>
And everything else.  But is Latin-1 really suitable as a replacement
for any particular national character set?  In particular, it doesn't
collate correctly for any single country's  alphabetization scheme,
except of course the English-speakers.  And just
think of the rewrites for "isalpha" and all that stuff... 

I think we have a mess on our hands.

-- 

   Mike Urban
	...!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban 

"You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"