"Göran Broström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seriously, I thoght that unicode and utf8 would make problems like > this disappear, but obviously we may have to wait another 30 years. > > Thanks for all the input. > > George
Well, I do tend to think that we should just use utf, assuming that people have the relevant glyphs. If they don't, then they might get little hollow rectangles but so what? (This entails stamping out the use of iso-8859-? which I think I have previously pointed out as the historical mistake. Easier said than done, though, especially since 8859-1, er, -15 managed to get established as a de facto standard in a couple of key places like HTTP and NNTP.) Transliterations are really abominable and completely ambiguous, e.g. oe means o-umlaut in Swedish and German, but o-slash in Danish and Norwegian, and we already have at least two interpretations of "roer" where oe represents two distinct vowels... piotr -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel