Re: Importance of diacritics

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 13:12:59 CDT

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    On 2004.07.14, 15:31, Alexander Savenkov <[email protected]> wrote:

    > 2004-07-13T13:57:37+03:00 Peter Kirk <[email protected]> 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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