[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tesv2l$2he8s$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> The idea that the same 7-bit character position can mean different
> things in adjacent countries (such as Norway and Sweden) is indeed a
> very alien idea to me and that would mean a company operating in both
> countries would have some serious data interchange issues.

My guess is that ä and ö had the same positions as æ and ø as they are 
essentially the same letter.

Note that the Swedish alphabet ends with å ä ö and the Norwegian/Danish
with æ ø å.  :-) 

Hoping that my EDT-produced 8-bit characters make it through.  :-)