From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 13:12:59 CDT
On 2004.07.14, 15:31, Alexander Savenkov <savenkov@xmlhack.ru> wrote:
> 2004-07-13T13:57:37+03:00 Peter Kirk <peterkirk@qaya.org> wrote:
>
>> In the original Russian, the two dots would appear over the
>> Cyrillic e only in rather specialised circumstances or in texts
>> marked up beginners.
>
> Correct. Some people however would like to change that (i.e. so that
> the dots are no longer optional).
Not unlike the situation of French (and other) accent on capitals:
Originally a technical constrain crudely solved to serve the tool
instead of the user.
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