[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[P. Sture]

In article <hbmhg5$760$03$1 at news.t-online.com>,
 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

> Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb:
> 
> > 
> > It would be enough to see the "US" part of "US ASCII" to
> > understand that we today lives in a world that is slightly
> > larger then the "US"...
> 
> I don't think this has to do with US vs the world,
> but rather is a matter of the least common denominator,
> i.e. the KISS principle which made Unix successful.
> I for myself have no problem to write my name with "ae"
> instead of the proper umlaut, if this is the price to be
> readable just about everywhere.
> 

The transliteration for umlauts works well in German*, but accented 
characters in other languages don't.

* A couple of years ago someone who deals with software for the blind 
told me that text to speech software doesn't cope well here.

-- 
Paul Sture