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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-02 15:22, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

I think/seem to remember they do.

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

That is if we are talking about collating them, yes. However, in the 
character table (Swedish) they are in the order ä ö å, which means that 
when you want to collate words in Swedish with ISO-646-SE, you cannot go 
by plain value. And that was annoying. And unfortunately, the wrong 
order persisted in ISO-8859-1 as well.

And then we have German, which collate ä along with a, just to make the 
whole international world even more messed up. :-)

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

They did.

   Johnny