David Oftedal scripsit: > What's the reason behind this? Is the � just so cool and exotic > that Unicode had to implement it twice?
Basically that one Japanese standard put it in as capital A ring for Latin-1 compatibility, and another standard put it in as Angstrom sign. The roundtrip rules required that these two be given distinct code points in Unicode, but one (the Angstrom sign) was given a single-point canonical equivalence to the other, which made it in effect deprecated. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
