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A FAQ on a subject like this will necessarily include a lot of non-English
names and words which contain letters not in the English alphabet, mainly
accented vowels. I don't like the idea of forcing foreign words into an
English straitjacket by converting these letters into diphthongs (or, even
worse, just ignoring the accents). There is an international standard
8-bit character set, ISO 8859/1, also known as Latin 1; it's an extension
of 7-bit ASCII to include most of the characters used in European
languages. I've used the Latin 1 characters in this document.
A lot of news transport and news reading software now supports Latin 1, and
it's becoming more widely supported; unfortunately, there's still a lot of
software around that reduces everything to 7-bit ASCII. For the benefit of
those using such software, here's a table of the accented letters in Latin
1 (not all of these appear in this document, of course), so you can tell
whether you have 8-bit software, and if not, which characters the accented
letters are being turned into. If you come across a name that seems to be
spelled oddly, this should help you figure out what it's meant to be.
Letter A a E e I i N n O o U u Y y
Acute accent (') Á á É é Í í - - Ó ó Ú ú Ý ý
Grave accent (`) À à È è Ì ì - - Ò ò Ù ù - -
Caret (^) Â â Ê ê Î î - - Ô ô Û û - -
Tilde (~) Ã ã - - - - Ñ ñ Õ õ - - - -
Umlaut (") Ä ä Ë ë Ï ï - - Ö ö Ü ü - ÿ
Ring (o) Å å - - - - - - - - - - - -
Slash (/) - - - - - - - - Ø ø - - - -
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