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Date:         Fri, 25 Sep 92 19:19:25 EDT
From:         David Megginson <DMEGGINS@UOTTAWA>
Subject:      Re: Names of IPA symbols
To:           "TEI-L: Text Encoding Initiative public discussion list"
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In-Reply-To:  Message of Fri, 25 Sep 1992 15:02:35 -0400 from <[log in to unmask]>
 
On Fri, 25 Sep 1992 15:02:35 -0400 Glenn Adams said:
 
>Why would anyone want to create a new character set for IPA?  ISO10646
>already provides a full encoding of IPA.
 
Not for e-mail or Usenet news interchange, where only a subset of plain
ASCII (to use the terminology loosely) will survive transmission.  They
are probably looking to find a way of encoding IPA in ASCII, possibly
using SGML entity notation.
 
 
David
 
 
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David Megginson                        Department of English,
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