From: chris@netman.se (Christopher Arnold) Subject: Re: NATIONAL CHARACTERS IN b18 19 May 1997 07:44:43 -0700 Sender: mail@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <97May19.111458gmt+0100.17026.cygnus.gnu-win32@ariadne.netman.se> Original-To: Tage Westlund Original-cc: noer@cygnus.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <337F2955.2421@stockholm.mail.telia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by cygnus.com id DAA01612 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sun, 18 May 1997, Tage Westlund wrote: > But, recently I have found that swedish, danish and > german users have complained about the national charac- > ters, typed by using the Alt Gr shift key. They simply > do not work, they say. > For us this is a real obstacle because those letters > are as frequent in our languages as are the characters > of the english language. Tage missed to spell out the main obstackle with national characters... It's not only a matter that we can't write "rdksmvrges", shrimp sandwich that is... But more serious is that we can't type in "|$" or even "{[]}"! (That is pipe, dollar, curly and hard braces) So us international users are quite grounded... /chris@netman.se - unix without pipe is like "rdksmvrges" without shrimp! - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".