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- From: ba07479@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (ba07479)
- Subject: Re: Finnish question
- In-Reply-To: matthew@ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14: 37:37 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul23.135758.2304@dde.dk> <JHEIKKIL.92Jul30133020@utrio.helsinki.fi>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:14:49 GMT
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- CT: Claus Tondering in article <1992Jul23.135758.2304@dde.dk>
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- >CT: ISO standard 6937 mentions that the Finnish language uses two characters
- >CT: that look like S and Z with a small v above (a hacek accent).
- >CT: I have never seen any Finnish text that uses these two characters.
- >CT: Does Finnish use them? Or has Finnish used them in the past?
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- Someone seemed to suggest that these symbols were not used
- anywhere else in the world other than in Roman transcriptions of
- Cyrillic texts. In fact, they are both used in Czech and Serbo-Croatian,
- and the s-hacek is used in Esperanto. That's all I can think of, but
- there may be more. :)
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- Angus Grieve-Smith
- ba07479@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu
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