Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>> If your local encoding is ISO 8859/1, you can input 'Y', but not
>> 'Y' with diaeresis.
>>
>> If your local encoding is Unicode but you are accustomed to ISO
>> 8859/1 environment, you will input 'Y', but not 'Y' with diaeresis.

> Everyone who ever makes this kind of remark seems to imagine that the
> tools that they are using never affect the people using them.  This is
> a preposterous assumption,

I already gave an example of capital form of 'c' with cedille is
often plain 'C' without cedille and seldom 'C' with cedille, even
though tools of ISO 8859/1 and Unicode support 'C' with cedille.

It's a fact, not an assumption.

Moreover, it is a fact that ISO 8859/1 includes 'y' with
diaeresis but not 'Y' with diaeresis, which means people
accept plain 'Y' without diaeresis as capital form of 'y'
with diaeresis whenISO 8859/1 was defined.

That is, people affect the tools.

Now, may I ask where are facts supporting *YOUR* assumptions?

                                                Masataka Ohta
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