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From: sandi@apollo.uucp (Sandra Martin)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Character representation
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 09:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 09:10:00 1987
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Peter O. Mikes @ S-1 Project, LLNL writes:
> So e.g. if switch  ( ROM, printwheel,..) is set to German , modified o will
> put two dots ( umlaut) above o; In Czech the same bit will put ' above
>  'aeiou' but will put inverted ^ over consonants  ( since only 'aeiou'
>  are allowed to have  '  and only consonants can  have ^, and so it goes.
>
>>But this doesn't
>>address all problems I mentioned. How to construct a general character
>>with an arbitrary accent, umlaut or other diacritic mark? An 8-bit
>>enumarate isn't sufficient.
>
> The problem you  (somebody) mentioned is hereby addressed.
> To disprove my conjecture, name one language with Latin-based alphabet 
> and one letter in that alphabet, which admits more then one modifier.

French allows an 'e' to take an acute or grave accent, as well as
a circumflex and an umlaut. Examples:

    e'cole      (school)
    privile`ge  (privilege)
    e^tre       (to be)
    Noe"l       (Christmas)

The 'a', 'i', and 'u' in French also can take multiple diacriticals. And in
Swedish, the 'a' can take a ring or an umlaut. I imagine there are other
examples, but these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

   Sandra Martin, Apollo Computer
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