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ASCII with easy French conventions

This charset is available in recode under the name texte and has txte for an alias.

This charset is identical to ascii-bs, save for French diacritics which are noted using a slightly different convention.

These conventions are used in texte and latexte charsets, which are seven bits codes. At text entry time, these conventions provide a little speed up. At read time, they slightly improve the readability. Of course, it would better to have a specialized keyboard to make direct eight bits entries and fonts for immediately displaying eight bit ISO Latin-1 characters. But not everybody is so fortunate. In several mailing environment, the eight bit is often willfully destroyed (an horrible Crime that most people do not care to straighten up).

Easy French has been in use in France for a while. I only slightly adapted it (the diaeresis option) to make it more comfortable to several usages in Qu'ebec originating from Universit'e de Montr'eal. In fact, the main problem for me was not to necessarily to invent Easy French, but to recognize the "best" convention to use, (best is not being defined, here) and to try to solve the main pithfalls associated with the selected convention.

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