From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e1db3171dee75056 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert I. Eachus" Subject: Re: Strings Date: 2000/06/03 Message-ID: <393981E3.22D0ABBF@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 630718279 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8gntbr$mei$2@news.cowan.edu.au> <20000527160256.22891.00000308@ng-fw1.aol.com> <8gpq2n$oj0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 960069975 63.24.55.249 (Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:06:15 PDT) Organization: The MITRE Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:06:15 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. ;-)