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From: lambert@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Character representation
Message-ID: <47@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 09:14:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: piring.47
Posted: Sat Aug 15 09:14:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 09:43:03 EDT
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <8410@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
) Surely you jest!  If the French had invented computers, the official
) rationale for FRSCII (or whatever it would be called :-)) would go to
) great lengths to explain why cedillas were part of God's plan but no
) civilized human being would ever put pairs of dots above letters!

But the French do!  Best known example: <<Noe"l>> (Xmas) with a dieresis on
the <<e>>.  Other examples: <<contigue">> (female form of <<contigu>> =
contiguous), <<mai"s>> (corn), <<cycloi"de>>.

This by itself does not prove anything about the relationship between the
French and civilized human beings one way or the other, but it makes it
implausible that they would argue as suggested.

) Support sustained spaceflight: fight |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology

There I was believing you made these hilarious signature lines on purpose,
but now I see the ambiguity was probably unintentional.  I'll pipe the
output of my fight through you.

-- 

Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam; lambert@cwi.nl