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Peter Flynn scripsit: > So eventually you get down to the third factor: judgement, which is > based on knowledge and a shedload of other things. "Good judgement is a matter of experience, and experience is a matter of bad judgement." > Soften it a little and consider IBM (I believe: Len? Michael?) > who were building a precursor to what would eventually become > the foundations of Latin-1. Right down somewhere near the bottom > right-hand corner came the ÿ (yuml) character, which is used in > French, and mostly in the names of some towns, but so rarely that even > some French people are unaware of it, as I discovered when I asked > some French LaTeX typesetters. The ŵ character (wcirc), which is used > daily by 3 million Welsh speakers didn't appear to get a look in until > Latin-2. There's internal evidence that Latin-[1234] were designed together. Specifically, if a character appears in more than one of these sets, it always appears at the same code point. > Perhaps we can learn from history for once :-) "Papa Hegel he say that we learn from history that we learn nothing from history. *I* know people who can't learn from what happened last week." --Chad C. Mulligan. -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." cowan@c... Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Abracadabralike / schemas must die!"
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