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From: kh@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: Introduction of 'symbolic letter'
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Greetings,
     I was very interested to note that the Dutch language has been the
source for the idea of a symbolic letter.   Of course, there are many other
cases where such a notion is used (eg the German 'eszet' is lower case and
its upper case equivalent is 'SS', diphthongs and ligatures in many other
languages have an equivalent functionality for certain processing purposes
and it would be useful to expand this concept for such purposes.

          regards,
                    keith