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Hey Kees!

 KvE> As far as I have noticed the Danes are dumbing down their
 KvE> notations to 7 bit characters.

Do you mean like ISO-646 for Danish/Norwegian?  That has been around for a
long, long time now.  In Canada there are two versions, one for English and the
other for French.  I seriously doubt anyone uses either anymore if indeed
either got any serious usage other than perhaps some silly gov't department(s).

Here is an interesting thought; What about the signage of Birobidzhan
(Биробиджан)?  What 7 or 8 bit encoding will cover Russian and
Yiddish which are the most likely used and supported languages of that city? 
As far as I know it is one of the few places on this earth where Yiddish is
still being officailly supported.  Please don't quote me on that as I don't
know for sure and am only speculating.

As for the Danes and 7 bit encodings I doubt they'll succeed internationally
with that crippled idea.  The Russians have a better shot at it with their
CP866 crippleware albiet they threw in an extra bit.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Se ðe ear gifeð and eft oftihð... bysmer he gewyrceð.
    He who gives and takes it back again does a shameful thing.
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