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Re: ISO 8859-16 is a national security threat :)

To: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ISO 8859-16 is a national security threat :)
From: "Damian J. Anderson" <damian@unification.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:25:02 -0400 (EDT)
Approved: Damian J. Anderson <damian@unification.net>
Cc: i18n@xfree86.org, linux-utf8@nl.linux.org, ietf-charsets@iana.org
In-reply-to: <E15cpb9-000323-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Organization: Family Federation for World Peace and Unification


If they are concerned about criminals misspelling their names using
comma below versus cedilla, they may want to consider that such people
also use aliases and false passports. ;-)

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> I was delighted to read in
> 
>   ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3/N 441
>   http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n441.pdf
> 
> how ISO 8859-16 is officially considered by the Kingdom of the
> Netherlands a threat to their national security. (Though it makes we
> worry whether the Dutch secret police is now after me, having made
> available tools for generating X11 fonts for that encoding with the
> subversive COMMA BELOW characters. Implementors beware.)
> 
> Markus

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Damian J. Anderson <damian@unification.net>     http://www.unification.net

References:
- ISO 8859-16 is a national security threat :)
  - From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>

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