wrote: > > > It isn't the question. The text says "The exemplar character set > > contains the commonly used letters for a given modern form of a > > language", and continues with "It is not a complete set of letters > > used for a language". > > Right, but the two sides often disagree fundamentally on "commonly > used." Is e-with-acute a "commonly used" letter in English > because of > borrowings like r�sum� and caf�? Who can say with authority?">

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> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
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> "JR" wrote:
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> > It isn't the question. The text says "The exemplar character set
> > contains the commonly used letters for a given modern form of a
> > language", and continues with "It is not a complete set of letters
> > used for a language".
>
> Right, but the two sides often disagree fundamentally on "commonly
> used." Is e-with-acute a "commonly used" letter in English
> because of
> borrowings like r�sum� and caf�? Who can say with authority?

It is used, but not commonly used, certainly not on the west side of the
pond. Evidence: several encodings do not support it (e.g. ASCII - American
Standard Code for Information Interchange).

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