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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: A proposal for a new character standard
Message-ID: <1072@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 20:30:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.1072
Posted: Tue Sep  8 20:30:32 1987
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In article <2254@enea.UUCP> sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>The ordinary set consists of 28 lower case letters and the numbers.  28?
>Yes, A to Z minus W plus Icelandic Thorn and Edh and German double-s.  W is
>sent as V-ligature-V.  Perhaps we must also give place for dotless "i".

Of course, dotless-i could *replace* dotted-i; then dotted-i would become an
accented character.  We could also save a slot by using i-cedilla for j.  Then
the dutch ligature ij would be sent as I-dot-ligature-I-dot-cedilla!

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint