Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!flaps From: flaps@utcsri.UUCP Newsgroups: can.francais,can.general Subject: Re: Accents et objectifs Message-ID: <5189@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 22:46:59 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.5189 Posted: Tue Aug 4 22:46:59 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 03:00:53 EDT References: <424@pembina.UUCP> <228@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> <232@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> <1202@cognos.UUCP> Reply-To: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) Distribution: can Organization: University of Toronto Lines: 45 Xref: utgpu can.francais:40 can.general:677 Summary: In article <1202@cognos.UUCP> roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley) writes: >However, I >think this brings us round to the need for a character set which includes all >possible accented letter combinations as unique codes... >If there is this much interest in can.francais, perhaps a serious effort can be >mounted, which might look (say) at all roman alphabet-based written languages, The ISO Latin 1 standard is based on this idea... it claims to work for Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish (as used in specific countries.. I won't bother with the country list as it is longer). I think all of the characters relevant to French are the following. I might have missed a couple or mistakenly included a couple here, but they're all in the standard. 224 14/00 a` ` latin small letter a with grave accent 226 14/02 a^ b latin small letter a with circumflex accent 228 14/04 a" d latin small letter a with diaeresis 231 14/07 c, g latin small letter c with cedilla 232 14/08 e` h latin small letter e with grave accent 233 14/09 e' i latin small letter e with acute accent 234 14/10 e^ j latin small letter e with circumflex accent 235 14/11 e" k latin small letter e with diaeresis 238 14/14 i^ n latin small letter i with circumflex accent 239 14/15 i" o latin small letter i with diaeresis 244 15/04 o^ t latin small letter o with circumflex accent 246 15/06 o" v latin small letter o with diaeresis 249 15/09 u` y latin small letter u with grave accent 252 15/12 u" | latin small letter u with diaeresis There doesn't seem to be an oe diphthong, but this isn't really necessary, especially these days. -- // Alan J Rosenthal // \\ // flaps@csri.toronto.edu, {seismo!utai or utzoo}!utcsri!flaps, \// flaps@toronto on csnet, flaps at utorgpu on bitnet. "To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return."