From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 11:43:58 EDT
Thomas Pottjegort <thomas at nedstat dot com> wrote regarding the use of
ISO 6937 in Videotex and Teletex:
> Because you could use only 40 characters by 25 lines the char "IJ" is
still very usefull.
In those limited-display environments, sure, the more text you can cram
into one column the better. On an 80-column screen or in today's GUI
environments, I imagine the need is greatly reduced.
BTW, notice in this thread how consistently users are typing the
individual letters I and J to refer to the precomposed IJ character.
That should tell us a lot about how necessary this precomposed character
really is to support Dutch.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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