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




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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