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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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