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From: eppstein@garfield.columbia.edu (David Eppstein)
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Subject: Languages using unaccented Latin chars
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 00:38:25 EDT
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Jerry Schwarz quotes from a draft of the Rationale of the proposed 
ANSI C standard, section 4.4:
> 
> 	The English language uses 26 letters derived from the
> 	Latin alphabet. The set of letters suffices for English, 
> 	Swahili, and Hawaiian; all other living languages use
> 	either the Latin aphabet plus other characters, or other 
> 	non Latin aphabets or syllabaries.

Maori (similar to Hawaiian but a living language in its own right) also
uses unaccented Latin.  No doubt other examples exist.

A little exaggeration is not in itself a bad thing, but in a standard?
-- 
David Eppstein, eppstein@cs.columbia.edu, Columbia U. Computer Science Dept.