Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Danish spelling

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor]

The cryptically named areinert writes:

> Dano-norwegian use three non-(modern)English vowels, generally coded in 
> high-ASCII on American English keyboards, or somewhere in those alternate 
> character map/font tables in Windows.  They are:
> CAP/lowercase:                  ASC / ASC (MS-DOS American high-ascii)
> AE  ae       a+e stuck together 146   145
> O/  o/       O w/slash thru      -    237
> A'  a'       A with a halo      143  134

> But they don't generally pass through internet high-bit strips (I presume),

The internet standard for email is RFC 822.  It specifies that mail consists of 
ASCII characters (ie 7 bit characters).  Higher characters are not ASCII 
(though there are various 8 bit extensions to ASCII they are not very 
standardized) and are included in email at your own risk.

Stuart.
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