From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 01:09:29 CST
"JR" <jr at qsm dot co dot il> wrote:
> It isn't the question. The text says "The exemplar character set
> contains the commonly used letters for a given modern form of a
> language", and continues with "It is not a complete set of letters
> used for a language".
Right, but the two sides often disagree fundamentally on "commonly
used." Is e-with-acute a "commonly used" letter in English because of
borrowings like résumé and café? Who can say with authority?
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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