On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:46:31PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > What do you mean? I've done works for Project Gutenberg, and looked at a
> > number of books with thoughts of reducing them to ASCII. In my opinion,
> > Windows-1252 has every character that most English books will need,
>
> Especially those books that you want to reduce to ASCII :-)
The very fact that most of them can be reduced to ASCII and people still
find the resulting text useful and accurate to the original is a sign
that the important characters in English are in ASCII. And all the
standard transliterations - em-dashes -> --, c-cedilia -> c, e-acute,
e-grave -> e, o-umlaut -> o, shaped quotes -> " and ' - are from
characters in Windows-1252.
-- David Starner / Давид Старнэр - starner@okstate.edu Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
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