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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Bootcamp
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 20:54:34 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <1027bu8$n25i$1@dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 6/9/2025 11:58 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> If a character set had been designed in some European country, I
>> would expect it to be localized to that country's writing
>> system; it wouldn't be reasonable for me to be upset that it did
>> not cater to the US in that case, because the US didn't invent
>> it.
>
>The Western European alphabets are supersets of the English alphabet,
>so the UK/US would not be missing any letters.

Well, next time, invent it before we Americans do.  :-)

>But if we for Western European alphabets take the abomination
>known as ISO-646/ECMA-6, then all SW people will be missing
>something. ASCII [\]{|} are among those used for national characters.

So don't do that.

	- Dan C.