- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:23:08 +0200
- To: Martin J Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Cc: rosenne@NetVision.net.il, www-international@w3.org
Martin J Duerst writes: > Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote: > > >Yes, SC2/WG2 has decided that equivalence tables should not be > >standardized, as they are culturaly offensive. So why don't we just > >just live with this decision and avoid them? > > Keld - Can you please tell me what would be offensive in such > tables, and to whom and why? If necessary, please use private > mail. This is the first time I have heard about it, and I have > a hard time imagining what it could mean. The Danish letters ÆØÅæøå are not decomposable, as they are letters of their own right. We had from Dansh Standards a long battle having the letter Æ recognized as a letter in ISO. One of the problem we had was that sometimes this was decomposed into an A and an E and then not printed or displayed as one letter, but instead in two, and sometimes this wholesome letter was hyphenated into two letters at the end of a line. For Ø and Å we foresee similar problems, such as removing the perceived "accent" . Anyway there is *not* an accent in these letters, and you should no decompose these. Keld
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