> Very tantalising!
>
> What characters needed by French are missing from Latin-1?
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin9.html
>
From: "Antoine Leca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tuesday, September 28th, 2004 03:22 "Tom" wrote:
Let's say. The test engineer ensures the functionality and validates
the input and output on major Latin 1 languages, such as German,
French, Spanish, Italian,
Just a side point: French cannot be fully add
About the French ligatures 'oe' (and 'ae'), I should have noted this
excellent summary page (in French) on its usage and history:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(typographie)
Note that Latin- or Greek-inherited words use the ligature when the vowels
are not to be pronounced separately, but
Philippe Verdy wrote:
in addition, French
keyboards typically never include a key to enter these ligatures, which are
only entered with "assisted" word processors with on-the-fly
autocorrection
In that case, I'd recommend French people to use my Swedish Linux
keyboard which *does* contain the Å li
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On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 17:42, Philippe Verdy va escriure:
> From: "Antoine Leca"
>> Just a side point: French cannot be fully addressed with Latin 1.
Otto Stolz wrote:
As has been said before, in this thread (by Jörg Knappen, IIRC), the
little bow in the -burg abbreviation stems from the "u" stripped
together with the "r".
In German handwriting it used to be common to place a mark above
the letter 'u', to distinguish it from 'n'. When I first sa
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I see no reason given for us not to unify the
handwritten symbol we have seen with BREVE ABOVE.
In the environment described, apparently bg is
taken as an abbreviation for berg, and bg (with
breve) is being used as an abbreviation for burg.
The breve is the same as was used in German to
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At 06:04 PM 9/30/2004, Michael Everson wrote:
see no reason given for us not to unify the handwritten symbol we have
seen with BREVE ABOVE. In the environment described, apparently bg is
taken as an abbreviation for berg, and bg (with breve) is being used as
an abbreviation for burg. The breve
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