Re: Strings

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@earthlink.net>]

Robert Dewar wrote:

> Actually David's advice was more useful. All letters are not
> in the range 'a' to 'z' unless you have a very english-centered
> view of the world :-)

   I agree with the message, but not with the wording.  The English
language uses many more characters than the twenty-six of the English
alphabet.  In fact a "standard" type drawer contains many characters
and digraphs used in normal English but not found in Latin-1! (Some of
these are digraphs, such as fl, ffl, fi, and ffi.  But others include
the ae with diaresis found in encyclopaedia, the oe digraph, and the
worst case--a town where the name begins with the Oe diaresis digraph,
and only the O is capitalized. ;-)