Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 12:04:18 EST


At 08:48 -0800 2001-11-29, John Hudson wrote:

>No, this assumption is not correct. French typewriters could not
>type accents over uppercase letters

Odd. The Irish Gaelic typewriters had capital and small acute
accents, and capital and small dots above. That took two keys,
though, and French uses more than two diacritical marks.

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Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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