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<DIV><SPAN class=971525418-28092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>At least for characters with diacritics, wouldn't it work to simply put
the diacritic before the letter if there is a concern about
compatibility?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=971525418-28092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>~n</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=971525418-28092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>'e</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=971525418-28092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>`e</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=971525418-28092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=971525418-28092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>etc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=ja dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Damon Allen Davison
[mailto:allolex@gmail.com] <BR></FONT></DIV><TT><BR>Graphic representations of
"foreign" character sets are problematic<BR>because there are sundry and
conflicting whatever-to-Latin<BR>transcription systems out there. One of
the problems from a<BR>computational point of view is that the representation
markers for<BR>many of these systems are ambiguous. ' N ' may very well
represent a<BR>tilde, but ' N ' also needs to be able to represent, well, ' N
'. I<BR>might be able to fish that out using a rule like: "if there is
a<BR>majiscule N in the middle of a word, it means that the previous
word<BR>has a tilde over it". Another problem with using tricks like ' N'
is<BR>that there are words and especially acronyms out there that
have<BR>internal capitalization. This all really does seem a bit
excessive<BR>since everyone should at the very least have ISO-8859-1 support
and<BR>8859-1 contains almost all Western European letters. ASCII has
long<BR>since been obsolete.</TT></BLOCKQUOTE><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| -->
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