[dsdl-discuss] Re: Draft of Part 7 Character Repertoire Valdiation

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:16:44AM +0100, Martin Bryan wrote:
>
>>My initial (unofficial comments) on Rick's draft are:
>>
>>Annex A:
>>In first para change "the schema language" to "this standard"
>>In second item change Dutch to French in both places. NB: Dutch has no
>>accented characters and only one additional character that I am aware of:
>>the example should show how the set of accented characters relevant for
>>French can be split out of ISO-8859-1 in such a way that any characters used
>>solely for other European languages (e.g. German, Spanish, Swedish, etc) are
>>flagged as errors.
>
>
> As far as I know, Dutch actually does use accented characters, with an
> diaeresis to show that a vowel is in a different stance than the other
> wowels. And they have the ij, which is a separate letter, eg in
> crosswords puzzles. But we will be in Amsterdam soon, and we can have a
> look for our own eyes.

Actually, that use case is a real one, which Diedrik (the initial editor
of Part 7) brought up as a constraint that Kluwers had. So I would
prefer to fix it for Dutch: I am happy to put in any other example that
represents an additional significant use-case (especially if someone
else writes it!)

The ij IJ characters are provided in the example by the numeric
character references. If the diaersis is the only accent used, I will
adjust the example.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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