craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie) (02/12/86)
> >While we are on the topic of diacritics, I'd like to know what people in >Europe do with electronic mail? I usually leave out the accents when I send >e-mail in French, since the cases where ambiguous meanings result are few >and far between. A native speaker usually has no problem with this. Not >that I have the choice of not omitting them, unfortunately. Terminals with >the capability to display French are not widespread, and even then they fail >to agree on a common standard... > >The French researchers I've met seem at home on QWERTY keyboards, which leads >me to believe that they don't use the AZERTY layout. Is this true? Does word >processing hardware use the AZERTY layout? > Certainly the IBM display writer uses the French layout in France and French speaking Switzerland (if you want to see a country with real language standardisation problems - 4 languages). Craig. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!craig| Post: University of Lancaster, DARPA: craig%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Department of Computing, JANET: craig@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4146 | LA1 4YR Project: Cosmos Distributed Operating Systems Research
keld@diku.UUCP (Keld J|rn Simonsen) (02/15/86)
In Denmark we use keyboards with the national chars {|}, and almost
anybody I know uses such a keyboard. I know some very engineer
oriented places where they use ASCII.
Mail are done with these national chars, and when I communicate with
other Scandinavian people (in my language, they answer in theirs)
I also use the Danish Standard ISO 646 char set. And they use their
national version of ISO 646, that is I have never got an e-mail
from another Scandinavian country, where they did not use {|}.
So I recon national keybords are commonplace there too.
I know that this also counts for the commercial world, IBM sells
almost exclusively Danish keyboards here.
The situation may be different in other countries, eg. Germany.
In the Scandinavian countries {|} are considered genuine lettes,
where they in Germany just are umlauts.