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- From: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news (was Re: Commodore keyboard layout.)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.202132.11451W@viper.edb.tih.no>
- Sender: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- References: <ERU.92Nov20153352@tnso04.tele.nokia.fi> <By1pHw.G3L@NeoSoft.com> <TT.92Nov22223332@tarzan.jyu.fi> <1992Nov23.134005.281@osf.org>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:21:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.134005.281@osf.org>, dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
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- >tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
- >|> I don't know how much this has been discussed in the other groups
- >|> this has been cross-posted to, but we experimented with it in
- >|> soc.culture.nordic some time ago (was it last spring?) and
- >|> discovered that news goes 8-bit-clean to more or less every
- >|> country...
- >
- >I remembered the particular issue with Nordic countries after I posted
- >the original of this thread. There is a *large* installed base of
- >character generators and keyboards that use the 7-bit ISO-646 variants,
- >where [\]{|} are used for marked vowels (did any Norwegians read that as
- >a prolonged wail?).
-
- I read [\]{|}. It's no wail...indeed, my tounge got a triple knot
- just trying do pronounce it.
-
-
- If that's so, is there any concerted attempt to Do
- >Something about it? I was part of several efforts to solve this problem
- >at Prime, as part of the much bigger problem of curing the high bit
- >disease. We failed and, in the case of converting local-646 to 8859,
- >even failed to show that it was necessary to solve the problem.
- >
- >|> Anyway, here's a sample of umlauts &c: Σ÷ⁿσ°µ─╓▄┼╪╞▀■≡▐╨.
- >
- >From which I, at least, can tell that mcsun, uunet, cs.utexas.edu,
- >sdd.hp.com (all major gateways) and think.com (important to us!) are clean.
- >--
- >David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org
- >Open Software Foundation uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
- >Allⁿberall und ewig blauen licht die Fernen! Ewig... ewig... ewig...
-
- --
- Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
-
- Bury me deep. The next generations will be hungry.
-