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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Cleanicode
- Message-ID: <2809@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 12:25:19 GMT
- References: <2179@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <75sqXB1w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
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- Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology
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- In article <75sqXB1w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
- kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
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- >Greek, Latin and Cyrillic are three different *alphabets*.
- >
- >When I say "alphabets" I'm referring to a small number of characters with
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- I can't understand why it must be "a small number". Anyway,
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- >an order that allow the "user" of such an alphabet to write text in their
- >language. At least some characters in the above mentioned alphabets look
- >different and have different meanings or can't be found in all alphabets.
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- German alphabet has a character "A with umlaut" which can't be found in
- French alphabet.
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- They are, by your definition, different alphabets.
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- Why you unify German alphabet and French alphabet, then?
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- >Additionally the ease of conversion (from ISO 8859-x) is important, too.
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- Of course, the ease off conversion from ISO 2022 conformant text
- using all of GB, JIS and KCS is is also important.
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- Masataka Ohta
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