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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Mar 1997.
Re: (correction)

Re: (correction)

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
 
> >
> > 3.  [tricky] Using the american extended ASCII [sometimes called
> > "Standard Extended ASCII"?], how many characters can be called
> > "letters" in both english and foreign languages?
> > (hint: this is like your "Terminal Font" on Windows-based computers)
> 
> I can only compare the Swedish and English alphabet but here are the
> letters:
> 
> Swedish: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV XYZ���abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv xyz���
> English: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ   abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
> 
> So if I compare these two I get it to 25 letters in common 

That is 25+25 if you count 'A' and 'a' as different letters (and 'B' and
'b' and so on....)

>('w' is not
> considered a letter of its own in Swedish, just as an oldfashioned 'v'
> and it does not have a section of its own in dictionaries...)
> 
> Can anybody narrow this down furhter?

-- 
:)
Veronica
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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From: Veronica Karlsson <e93...@sm.luth.se.nospam>
Subject: Re: (correction)
Date: 1997/03/10
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