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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > 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. FYI: There has been developed an encoding scheme for (all?) known characters into plain ascii characters. The work has been done by Keld Simonsen <[log in to unmask]>. -- John Plate <[log in to unmask]> InfoTek aps, Ellebjergvej 2, DK-2450 Copenhagen, Denmark Fax (+45) 3116 1607