Re: ConGermanicRomanceLang?

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Andrew Chaney wrote:

> I'm betting it's eth or thorn (I can never remember which is which).
Eth is the one that looks like a modified "d", and some people write its name
"edh".  Thorn is the Runic letter, like p with ascender or b with descender.

> Since
> those are fricatives and they exist in the Windows (et al.) extended ASCII
> and not in Mac extended ASCII (don't ask me why -- there isn't a day that
> goes buy that I wish we could make those 2 letters :^( ).
Because the U.S./Western European Windows character set, CP1252, is an
upward compatible extension of the ISO character set 8859-1 (Latin-1),
and therefore handles the official languages of Western European
countries, including Iceland.  (It doesn't handle Welsh, though.)

Apple, OTOH, didn't bother to make MacRoman handle Icelandic, and had
to devise a separate character set, MacIcelandic, to do so.

But in this particular message, the edh and thorn have been garbled
already, which is why you see them as something really oddball.

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