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From: joe@haddock.ISC.COM (Joe Chapman)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Character representation
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 11:35:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 11:35:05 1987
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>Besides I have VERY CONSTRUCTIVE
>(  insiders info ) FACT on ceddilas, umlats, haceks, and other such ...
> [modifiers] namely : In all langauges I know, there are many kinds,
> but ANY PARTICULAR LETTER either has one - or it does not.
> To disprove my conjecture, name one language with Latin-based alphabet 
> and one letter in that alphabet, which admits more then one modifier.

I don't even have to get obscure: in French an ``e'' can take one of
three accents (grave, acute, circumflex) or a diaeresis.

> english sh  is perverse Hungarian's sz
> is actualy one sound (soft s or s^).

Minor quibble: in Hungarian, sz is pronounced like the s in English
"soup", and s is pronounced as in "shop".

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Joe Chapman
harvard!ima!joe