From hinsenk@ERE.UMontreal.CA Fri Aug 18 21:19:04 1995 Received: from condor.CC.UMontreal.CA for hinsenk@ERE.UMontreal.CA by www.ccl.net (8.6.10/950810.1506) id VAA04477; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:13:09 -0400 Received: from eole.ERE.UMontreal.CA (eole.ERE.UMontreal.CA [132.204.10.20]) by condor.CC.UMontreal.CA with ESMTP id VAA15020 (8.6.11/IDA-1.6); Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:11:43 -0400 Received: from cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA by eole.ERE.UMontreal.CA (950221.405.SGI.8.6.10/5.17) id VAA01796; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:11:42 -0400 Received: by cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (950221.405.SGI.8.6.10/5.17) id VAA18121; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:11:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:11:41 -0400 From: hinsenk@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad) Message-Id: <199508190111.VAA18121@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA> To: jochen+@pitt.edu CC: martin.norin@sto.pharmacia.se, dave@wh.bayer.com, chemistry@www.ccl.net In-reply-to: (message from Jochen Kuepper on Fri, 18 Aug 1995 20:30:25 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: CCL:References to Aaquist and Mg2++ And not only Scandinavian words, but almost every language has additional characters to the 26 known in the English language. Is there a common standard for interpreting them back to 26 ? No. Most countries have developed their own conventions when the upcoming telex system made this necessary, but they are all different. Sometimes there is even more than one convention for one language. BTW, even English needs more than 26 characters if spelt properly; there ought to be a difference between the verb "resume" and the noun "resum'e", for example. But in English the number of affected words is small enough to be ignored. Of the languages traditionally written in the Latin alphabet, only Latin itself needs no additional characters. And some that adopted the Latin script relatively recently (like Bahasa Indonesia, if I am not mistaken) are also content with the "standard" characters. Now, if anyone can find a relation back to chemistry... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsenk@ere.umontreal.ca Departement de chimie | Tel.: +1-514-343-6111 ext. 3953 Universite de Montreal | Fax: +1-514-343-7586 C.P. 6128, succ. A | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/Nederlands/ Montreal (QC) H3C 3J7 | Francais (phase experimentale) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------