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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-02 21:01, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <tet4ng$hpm$1 at news.misty.com>, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
>> And then we have German, which collate À 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.
> 
> Yours didn't.  :-(

I think your news reader can't deal with UTF-8. My post's headers say:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

Yours say:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15

So your newsreader probably tries to process everything it receives as 
ISO-8859-15, and then my post turns out the way you see it.

> I guess that the above is ä.  Yes, ä and a are sometimes collated, but
> more often ä is collated before or after a or ae.

Yeah. I was essentially saying that ä is considered a variant or 
combination of a possibly followed by e in German, while in Swedish it 
is a unique letter of its own, with its own place in the alphabet. No 
relationship with a at all.

   Johnny