You, Peter Flynn, wrote: ++ ++ ISO8879 names for Windows CP 1252 80-9F (128-160) entities: ++ ++ 83 (131) -- ? -- florin ++ ++ What's a florin? I know it's the old UK name for what was two ++ shillings, but Bill obviously means something else here. It's used as the Dutch currency symbol. ++ ++ 8B (139) -- ? -- guilsinglleft ++ « ++ ++ 9B (155) -- ? -- guilsinglright ++ » ++ ++ 9F (159) -- Ÿ -- Ydieresis ++ ++ Y diaeresis is a non-existent character, according to the experts on ++ TYPO-L, who have just discussed this in depth. It was included in both ++ ISOlat1 (lc) and ISOlat2 (uc) as well as the IBM pc character sets in ++ the mistaken belief that it actually existed in some language. It was ++ in fact transcribed in error, either from an ij or something ++ similar by whoever was representing the character sets to Geneva at ++ the time, and no-one was prepared to bite the bullet and say "this ++ does not exist", for fear of being proved wrong, and thus attacked for ++ failing to cater for whatever language was supposed to require ++ it. Various claims have been made for its existence in Dutch, Turkish, ++ and other less populous languages, but none of these have been ++ demonstrated. It's not a letter in Dutch, but a ligature for i and j. In fact, it is so common that many people think ydieresis is a single letter, and in phonebooks, "ij" is sorted between "y". Dutch typewrites have a key for ydieresis (often with florin on the shift part). That is of course in small letters. Capitalized, it is IJ, without dots. AbigailReceived on Saturday, 30 November 1996 18:24:57 GMT
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