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Re: Typeable characters

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Sun, 22 December 1996 08:42 UTC

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To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
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> > > # "@", "$", "#"(for fragments).
> > > 
> > > Are you saying that people who cannot type an Internet email address
> > > (which usually requires "@") should also be considered to be able to
> > > type a URL?
> > 
> > Even with ISO, ISO 646 IRV is now ASCII.
> 
> Yes, it is, since around 1991. But still Japan has its Yen symbol
> instead of the backslash, and its overbar instead of the tilde.

The reality is that it's NOT a problem in Japan or in any contry
in which C is used.

							Masataka Ohta

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