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<DIV><SPAN class=708520323-28092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff size=2>I
correct my suggestion to characters with diacritics provided in ASCII.
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Peter Kirk
[mailto:peterkirk@qaya.org] <BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT>On 28/09/2004 19:56,
Benjamin J Barrett wrote:<BR><BR>> At least for characters with diacritics,
wouldn't it work to simply <BR>> put the diacritic before the letter if
there is a concern about <BR>> compatibility?<BR>> <BR>>
~n<BR>> 'e<BR>> `e<BR>> <BR>> etc.<BR><BR><BR>Well, that
works for some languages (with the caveats Ken has already <BR>posted), but
even with the usual odd mappings e.g. apostrophe for acute <BR>it doesn't
cover even western European languages (no ring to go above <BR>a), let alone
eastern European ones (no caron/hacek, not sure what to do <BR>about ogonek
etc) and of course useless for Vietnamese and African <BR>languages as well as
probably for many native American languages.</TT></BLOCKQUOTE><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| -->
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