A proposed solution for descriptions

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Mon Jun 19 17:54:43 CEST 2006


At 17:44 +0200 2006-06-19, Kent Karlsson wrote:

>There is no diacritic in "Åland" (though there is a combining
>character in the NFD form of that string, but that is
>something else). Nor is there a diacritic in "Göteborg".

Oh, stop. Of course they are diacritics. They are historical diacritics.

>Now, can we please kill this "ASCIIification" project as it
>stands. If there was one place that I had hoped one would
>not need to argue that was this particular forum.

I tend to agree. I am certainly unhappy about the 
number of e-mails this has generated.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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