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Re: 'caron'

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Thursday, July 8, 2004, 23:19
John:
> Mark Davis believes that it was created by someone in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2, > the subcommittee of ISO in charge of character encoding, or in one of > its two working groups, WG2 (Unicode) and WG3 (8-bit encodings), and > that the inventor has probably taken his secret to the grave with him.
When would the invention date from, then? My unfaultless memory dates my first encounter with 'caron' to the late 1980s, but that seems a little early for it to have diffused from a Unicode working party. --And.

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>