Sujet : Re: Bootcamp
De : cross (at) *nospam* spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 09. Jun 2025, 21:54:34
Autres entêtes
Organisation : PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <
1027bu8$n25i$1@dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj <
arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
On 6/9/2025 11:58 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
If a character set had been designed in some European country, I
would expect it to be localized to that country's writing
system; it wouldn't be reasonable for me to be upset that it did
not cater to the US in that case, because the US didn't invent
it.
>
The Western European alphabets are supersets of the English alphabet,
so the UK/US would not be missing any letters.
Well, next time, invent it before we Americans do. :-)
But if we for Western European alphabets take the abomination
known as ISO-646/ECMA-6, then all SW people will be missing
something. ASCII [\]{|} are among those used for national characters.
So don't do that.
- Dan C.
Bootcamp
Re: Bootcamp