How Groupe Bull screwed French with ISO 8859-1 (was: [PATCH v3 07/13] libc.7: ffix)

["G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>]

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Hi Alex,

I've been meaning to share this story with more people since to figure
it out I had to resort to literature in a language I don't read.

At 2023-01-05T18:17:21-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> ``This'' is so ugly on ISO 8859 and later character set-based
> terminals that I don't wonder why people avoid it.
> 
> https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n411.pdf
> 
> ...is a copy of part 1 of ECMA-94, the gratis equivalent of ISO 8859,
> and shows what the ' and ` glyphs are supposed to look like.

So I give you:

How Groupe Bull Screwed French with ISO 8859-1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oizx6vgbw01za0h/How%20Groupe%20Bull%20Screwed%20Latin-1_CG_1996___25_65_0.pdf?dl=0

I hope some day the name of the ignorant and indifferent conference
attendee will be made public.

Regards,
Branden

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