Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish ghayn)

Thomas Pottjegort <thomas at nedstat dot com> wrote regarding the use of
ISO 6937 in Videotex and Teletex:

> Because you could use only 40 characters by 25 lines the char "IJ" is
still very usefull.

In those limited-display environments, sure, the more text you can cram
into one column the better.  On an 80-column screen or in today's GUI
environments, I imagine the need is greatly reduced.

BTW, notice in this thread how consistently users are typing the
individual letters I and J to refer to the precomposed IJ character.
That should tell us a lot about how necessary this precomposed character
really is to support Dutch.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/