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From: "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
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Subject: Re: trigraphs, yecch
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:39:05 +0100
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James Kuyper wrote:
<snip>
> There are work-arounds; such as standard conventions for
> transliterating a German letter such as ö into oe, but those
> conventions implement essentially the same idea as trigraphs: using
> multiple representable characters to indirectly represent a single
> character that's not directly representable.

Not quite the same thing. while e.g. the German ö can get transcribed as oe, 
not every oe can get changed to ö, so the process is not reversible.

Bye, Jojo