Patent on æ ø å

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 15:24:00 EST

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Can there possibly be any truth in any of this?

>The following is an article in the Danish paper Information:
>
>http://www.information.dk/Indgang/VisArtikel.dna?pArtNo=136309
>
>Do you know anything about this. It is supposedly the company Walid
>(http://www.walid.com/) that has patented the transformation of non-a-z for
>use in URLs.
>
>An article in CumputerWorld (admittedly a year and a half old) -
>http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,59043,00.html
>- has some references, among other things to the text of the patent.
>
>The Danish site Softwarepatenter.dk has it also:
>http://www.softwarepatenter.dk/walid.html. It is quite new there. Is
>this
>whole thing just "hoax"?

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