- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:36:15 +0200
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 3:24:26 AM, Elliotte wrote: EH> Other characters are problematic as well. In some locales, mappings are EH> not 1-1. For instance, in French sometimes the lower case form of E is é EH> and sometimes it's e (details vary by country and context). This is backwards by the way - the actual situation is that sometimes the upper case version of é was typed as E. This was entirely related to the number of keys on a typewriter, and was seen as bad but regrettable practice. It was never approved by the Imprimerie Nationale, for example. You don't see it nowadays. None of which is particularly relevant to the subject under discussion, of course. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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