----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John H. Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 11:34 PM Subject: Re: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?
> John H. Jenkins scripsit: > > > And isn't there a language used quite a bit just south of the English > > channel for which Latin-1 isn't really adequate? A minor, obscure > > language, I think. Fr-something. > > What's the problem? Y with diaeresis is a most marginal letter, and > oe-ligature is a mandatory ligature in French, and thus ought to be > done automatically by a well-tuned French font, no? And what if there is some case where the sequence "oe" shouldn't be displayed as "�?" What if someone wants to write a French text about the German author Goethe, for example? Or what about the English spelling "�dipus?" Besides, if a name is mentioned in Swedish, all accents etc. should be kept, even if it is an Eastern European name. Stefan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
