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Re: 'caron'

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, July 9, 2004, 7:27
And Rosta scripsit:

> 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.
Probably the early 80s, when Latin-2 (the Central European encoding) was standardized. -- A: "Spiro conjectures Ex-Lax." John Cowan Q: "What does Pat Nixon frost her cakes with?" jcowan@reutershealth.com --"Jeopardy" for generative semanticists http://www.ccil.org/~cowan