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From: huitema@mirsa.inria.fr (Christian Huitema)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Xerox Character Code Standard (was 7-bit ASCII vs. 8-bit ASCII)
Message-ID: <157@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 24 Apr 89 09:07:47 GMT
References: <1491@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: INRIA, Sophia Antipolis. France
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From article <1491@auspex.auspex.com>, by guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris):
> Yes, it is.  In ISO Latin #1, it's "y with a diaresis" (what language
> uses that?).
French. English also, to a degree: diaresis is the only ``accentuation'' that 
you find in some English dictionnaries.

Actually, there was a debate between French and Dutch requirement. For the 
Dutch language needs the same graphic for the very frequent compound ``ij'', 
but Dutch people would certainly not name that "y with a diaresis".

Christian Huitema.