Re: _Accents--voilà!

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:

> --- Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Clint Jackson Baker wrote:
> >
> > 8< much snipping >8
> > The funky consonants and double-accented vowels are
> > Unicode and will
> > transfer even less well than this list.
> >
> > Everything exept for the ones I've left come through
> > unhindered for me.
> > What are they supposed to be? (Going by the codes,
> > I'd say they translate
> > into Latin-1 as control chars, butat least knowing
> > what they ought to be
> > would be a help.
> >
> > > œ    Alt+0156  small ligature oe
> > > Π   Alt+0140  cap ligature oe
> > > š    Alt+0154  s hasek
> > >      Alt+0138  this one didn't even come back to
> me
> > > Ÿ    Alt+0159  cap Y diaresis
> > > ƒ    Alt+0131  funky italic-like small f
>
> It's interesting--one uniform system would be the
> perfect solution to all this...yet we know we don't
> really want that because of all the other
> consequences--MicroBorg!
Or MicroBorg could have just adopted the established standards (which
didn't include those chars, I'm guessing. They all seem close enough to
the bottom of the upper part of a 256-char thingy). Or we could all
convert to Unicode (I want Unicode in my terminal NOW! (said in the tone
of a toddler throwing a tantrum)).

Tristan

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