Re: Unicode, etc. solution

Gabriel Paubert (paubert@iram.es)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:18:09 +0200 (METDST)

You wrote:
> I imagine if the new 16 bit character set eliminated the little used
> letter "Q" from the Latin-1 character set and recommended replacing it
> with the similar character "O". After all, there is only room for the
> "Normal everyday characters". Just imagine Adobe or Ouark explaining to
> their DTP customer's that not having the letter "Q" is a "feature".
>
> I imagine, if this where to happen that the people who use the Latin-1
> character set would be just as angry as the Asians.

Or replace 'w' with 'uu'. After all it's called double-u in English,
so it's superfluous, logical, isnt'it ?

In french and spanish it would be 'vv' which looks somehwat better, but
still very ugly although w is so rare. And then insert ligatures in TeX so
that the character is regenerated for typesetting :-)

IMHO it's time to stop this thread, I don't see the end and, in the
religious way it's handled, it will not bring any improvement to Linux,
which is the purpose of this mailing list, no ?

Gabriel.