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Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

From:Carlos Thompson <carlos_thompson@...>
Date:Sunday, June 13, 1999, 20:04
Lars Mathiesen wrote:

> People use the same convention in Danish --- ae oe aa for =E6 =F8 =E5, =
and
> I'm only aware of one bad ambiguity --- but it's real bad, OTOH: > > sukkerr=F8r "sugar canes" vs. sukkerroer "sugar beets"
Real bad, I agree.
> Apart from that, I think most people get used to reading the stuff > very quickly. It's certainly better than downconverting to a o a as > some mailers will do.
or ASCII-7-converting to <f> <x> <e> as I supose many mailers also do. A= t least it is not uncommon to see <n~> converted into <q> in postings in Spanish. -- Carlos Th