Re: The result of the Plane 14 tag characters review

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 18:33:20 EST

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At 18:25 -0500 2002-11-18, John Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>> >These is completely comparable to the fact that my local
>> >English-language newspaper doesn't need a German language tag
>> >to write Gerhard Schroeder.
>>
>> No, but it might requires an editor clever enough to write Schröder. :-)
>
>It will get mangled if he does: most newspapers historically didn't have
>sorts

Sorts is bloody lead type technology. Ain't many newspapers use that
these days....

>for characters with diaeresis (don't pester me about "cooperate", please)
>and wire services could not transmit them.

Coöperate, co-operate, cooperate. All grist for the spellchecker mill.

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