On 4 October 2013 16:15, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Radislaw's enumeration for French
>
> France (èéçàù)
>
> is enough to make his point.  It is, however, a proper subset.  To
> write correct French one also needs at least
>
> Œ œ À Á Æ Ç È É Ê â æ ô « »

At least. And probably ë, ï, ö, ü.

To say nothing of y+diaeresis U+00FF, which carries the strange
baggage of having its lower case version ÿ in ISO 8859-1 (and CP 037,
1047, and so on), but finding its upper case version Ÿ languishing in
the higher reaches of the Unicode BMP at U+0178.

Tony H.

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