Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton
From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple diacritical marks (was French Font needed
Message-ID: <540@uva.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 09:28:31 GMT
References: <9214@cup.portal.com> <619@ethz.UUCP> <1454@pur-phy>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <1454@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>In article <619@ethz.UUCP> macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) writes:
><The standard fonts
><all have accented characters included for all germanic, roman and 
><celtic languages, including French. 

>What about the upside down hat accent that appears in some eastern
>European langs (like in Dvorak the composer)?  Pretty annoying for
>Apple to have left these out, especially when cataloging my records...

Apple remained pretty strictly on the side of _western_ european languages.
What I'd like to know is whether that decision was made on economic grounds
(eastern Europe isn't a huge Mac market :-)) or simply narrow-mindedness.
New York, Geneva and Monaco were set quite a while before the laser fonts
came along and had plenty of free character slots (including the robot and
rabbit :-))

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS
"MesS-DOS programmers did it yesterday.  Mac programmers do it today.
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