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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tevcei$9eq$1 at news.misty.com>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

> 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.

Right.  I would be happy to install a UTF newsreader on VMS.  :-|

> 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.

That is true today.  Historically, it was borrowed from German.

Interestingly, when 8-bit characters are not available, Germans usually 
write "ae" for "ä" and Swedes write "a".