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Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator



On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:56:34AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:38:01PM -0500, branden@debian.org wrote:
> > I have no idea what the Vietnamese character set is called.
> 
> VISCII. Since it's a 8-bit character set that's a subset of Unicode, it's
> little different from handling any other Latin-script language. (Except -
> VISCII puts letters in C1 control section, and a couple into the C0 control
> section.)

That's interesting.  So Vietnamese is an alphabetic language rather than an
ideographic one?

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