On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:46:31PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > What do you mean? I've done works for Project Gutenberg, and looked at a > > number of books with thoughts of reducing them to ASCII. In my opinion, > > Windows-1252 has every character that most English books will need, > > Especially those books that you want to reduce to ASCII :-)
The very fact that most of them can be reduced to ASCII and people still find the resulting text useful and accurate to the original is a sign that the important characters in English are in ASCII. And all the standard transliterations - em-dashes -> --, c-cedilia -> c, e-acute, e-grave -> e, o-umlaut -> o, shaped quotes -> " and ' - are from characters in Windows-1252. -- David Starner / Давид Старнэр - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
