Linux Tools to Convert File Formats Jul 23, 2008, 05:00 (0
Talkback[s]) (Other stories by Federico Kereki) "English and
other languages include some special typographical characters in
addition to the normal 26 letters. Have you ever watched the
movie Æon Flux or sent in a curriculum vitæ? If you have to
import German text, you'll find lots of vowels with an umlaut on
them, and some ß characters as well. Spanish adds ň and acute
accents to the mix, and French has grave and circumflex accents
("pie à la mode," anybody?)... You don't need Unicode for
Standard English: you can do perfectly well with ASCII
characters..."