On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:18:28PM -0800, Ken Krugler wrote:
>> Please tell me if there are any languages supported by Palm (besides
>> English) where the entire alphabet is [a-zA-Z]?
>
> Well, even English occasionally goes out on a limb and uses high
> ASCII for words like r�sum�. So by [a-zA-Z] I assume you're also
> including accented versions.
Even English occasionally goes further than that: I'm sure I've
seen "�" in historical parts of an english Encyclop�dia.
> I think every other languages uses additional characters beyond
> upper/lower Latin +/- accents for standard words.
I'm guessing Ken means "every other language in the set {English,
French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese}" here (although I'm only
convinced for German and Japanese!). In general, I can think of any
number of other languages which use only (accented) Latin letters.
At this point, it becomes a question of what Paul means by "supported by
Palm". The set above is (last time I looked) the set of languages for
which Palm will sell you a localised device. But you can write
sentences in the Memo Pad in lots of Latin [a-zA-Z] lettered languages
(e.g., Latin!), so you might consider that "supported by a Palm device".
> When all is said and done, it's usually easiest to special-case text
> processing for single-byte vs. multi-byte character encodings, and
> just deal with the full set of 256 values for the single-byte case.
Yes. Whatever the language, people are likely to want to use funky
characters like � and � and that horrible e thing that ISO 8859-1 is
missing and that millions of people are going to be writing more often
starting from tomorrow.
John "will still be using kroner tomorrow"
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