Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!umnd-cs!umn-cs!hyper!dean From: dean@hyper.UUCP (Dean Gahlon) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Character representation Message-ID: <413@hyper.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 13:12:24 EDT Article-I.D.: hyper.413 Posted: Thu Aug 20 13:12:24 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 12:47:45 EDT References: <15381@mordor.s1.gov] Organization: Network Systems Corp., Mpls. MN Lines: 13 Xref: mnetor sci.lang:1182 comp.std.internat:137 in article <15381@mordor.s1.gov], pom@under..ARPA (Peter O. Mikes) says: ] ] 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. ] [random stuff deleted] ] ] ( I am not quite sure if all mono-anglo-phones realise that english is ] actually using pairs for sounds ( english sh is perverse Hungarian's sz ] is actualy one sound (soft s or s^). You mentioned it yourself - Hungarian. (O, for instance, has both long and short umlauts).