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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple question
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well if unicode was organised so that each language had its own
code space it would be a trivial problem.

look at latin 1 (for want of a better term): it covers a whole bunch
of languages, with different collation sequences and many of the
glyphs are not actually _real letters_.

=E9 tells me how to pronounce it (as far as i'm concerned), but it's
not really a character (=F4 is probably a better example).

=F6 is a real character in swedish:  en =F6l =3D a beer.