Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Mar 13 2025 06:09 pm
Hello Nicholas,
On Wednesday March 12 2025 18:48, you wrote to me:
>> 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.
NB> So with a typewriter, you would hit a two-key combination typing the
NB> accent/umlaut/etc and then the letter in the same place? That's pretty
NB> neat.
Yes, that is how these dead keys work. Easy once you are used to it.
>> 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...
NB> I would imagine. Just about everywhere outside of the US uses special
NB> characters of some sort. MS went along because they *had* to go along,
NB> otherwise they wouldn't have been able to continue their quest of
NB> world domination.
Indeed. But in the beginning it was quite messy with these dozens of code pages. Full support for Unicode started with Win XP IIRC.
>> 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. :-)
NB> I shouldn't have any issues setting it up. I've been using the
NB> 'allow8bit' keyword in my othernet since it was added to makenl. I'll
NB> just have to figure out what to do with it after it is created. ;)
OK, we will stay tuned.
Cheers, Michiel
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