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Autor: Simon Walter
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] Studying C as told. (For help)
On 06/23/2016 11:26 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
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> [1]. Actually, the English alphabet had more letters: þ, ð, ƿ[2] and ȝ, but
> they got dropped as early printing presses imported from Germany lacked
> these characters. Before the technology was copied and fonts could be
> manufactured domestically, the English suddenly had orders of magnitude more
> reading material lacking their letters than older handwritten works.
> (This is a gross simplification.) So let's have this in mind when you skip
> support for non-modern-English characters.


Funny how this is now the other way around with ß.