"Andrew" == Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> writes:
Andrew> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Carlo Traverso wrote: Andrew> Thanks Carlo. Perhaps my memory has become hazy in the Andrew> intervening years. :) Andrew> But still I questions your list. Why accents removed? It Andrew> was fairly routine to post latin-1 texts at that time. (I Andrew> can find an "8-bit" text as #1595, with a release date if Andrew> Jan, 1999.) These were the DP guidelines, (copied from PG official guidelines), I remember Ultima Thule, a book on iceland, with a discussion on what to do of the eths in names (that were eventually replaced with th) while the accents were routinely dropped. The book eventually was redone from scratch, it might have been the last one before DP changed officially to preserving accents. Carlo