Re: regex of the month (decade?)

David Landgren <[email protected]> writes:

> At that point, a vote was taken, and the result was that some other
> accented character like =C3=BD or something made it in at the expense of
> =C2=9C. What did get in were the decidedly less useful =C3=86 and =C3=A6 =
ligatures.

Quite interesting discussion over all, but also quite off topic, so I
joined until now. Which is most usefull of the french oe-ligature or
the scandinavian letter =C3=A6 I don't know.

But part of the explanation should be that the scandinavian delegates
pushed for '=C3=A6' to be accepted as a full letter and not just an
ligature. This succedded and therefore '=C3=A6' got included in iso-8859-1,
and I'm quite sure that iso-8859-15 makes the same distinction.

In english '=C3=A6' is still considered a ligature.


But as a non-ascii using european I prefere iso-8859-1(5) to
unicode. Much easier to work with, but I havn't really had the need to
mix different alphabets.=20


> but never saw it in use. Then last week I read two articles on two
> different web sites that used this convention. I found it quite
> jarring. What's next, "welcome to the re=C3=A4l world?"

But only if the pronouncation 're-al' would become widespread.

//Makholm