Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f16HcnH19546 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:49 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f16Hcmd05531 . for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09063.A9B8DA80" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16HclM19170 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01960 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:46 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16Hcj727322 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <10.7CB33DA1@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:39 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488944 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:42 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11645 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18610 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:40 +0100 Received: from wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk (mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.15]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f16Hceu27643 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.8.88] helo=cl.cam.ac.uk ident=rf) by wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 14QC4Z-0006nV-00 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:38:35 +0000 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:01:27 EST." <200102061701.MAA21339@pluto.math.albany.edu> Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default inputenc/fontenc tight to language Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:38:35 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robin Fairbairns" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3726 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09063.A9B8DA80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > But isn't \'e an abbreviation for \acute{e}, as david has already said, no. > and don't the French > conceptualize it as an accented 'e'? no, that's for english-speaking schoolchildren learning the language. just the same as, when i learnt latin, i learned that "v" and "u" are interchangeable, since there was in classical times no letter "u". the french alphabet has more letters than ours, that's all. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09063.A9B8DA80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default inputenc/fontenc tight to language

> But isn't \'e an abbreviation for = \acute{e},

as david has already said, no.

> and don't the French
> conceptualize it as an accented 'e'?

no, that's for english-speaking schoolchildren = learning the language.
just the same as, when i learnt latin, i learned that = "v" and "u" are
interchangeable, since there was in classical times = no letter "u".

the french alphabet has more letters than ours, that's = all.

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