Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Mar 12 2025 01:42 pm
Hello Nicholas,
On Tuesday March 11 2025 17:56, you wrote to me:
>> How was that before the computer age? How is it written on your
>> birth certificate? Your father's?
NB> You sparked my interest, so I dug it up from the bottom of a drawer in
NB> my bedroom, and no. None of the names on my birth certificate have it
NB> (they all look to be typed with a typewriter), except for my mother's
NB> signature. :)
I was hoping it would all be hand written. ;-)
So US typewriters only had he letters A-Z. Makes sense. If "special" chaacters were common on US typewriters they would have been included in ASCII...
Dutch typewriters had some "dead keys" for the accents. They printed he symbol but the carriage remained in the same place, so it combined with the following letter. That is of course where de "dead key" method in my Dutch keyboard driver comes from.
In the very beginning of the computer age here it was A-Z only just like in the US. But that quickly changed, Outside the US the demand for more than just A-Z was too great to ignore. And Microsoft went along...
[..]
>> So you could be the first...
NB> Maybe. If I can figure out a good way to send it up the chain of
NB> clerks. :)
I expect you will not run into serious problems setting it up on your end. We will see how it works out. Getting (part of) Z1 to paticipate in the UTF nodelist project would be nice. :-)
