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pneThe library receipt says that I returned, among other things, Gr¢nne hjerter and De Fortabte sjæles ¢.
Now I wonder how they got ¢ wrong for ø but got æ right.
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Date: Thursday, 28 April 2011 09:10 (UTC)Neither had I, but I suppose it makes sense: once you've had the idea of CP850 in the first place (being partially compatible with CP437 but also containing the full set of 8859-1 top-half characters), it's not much of a further leap to imagine a continuum between the two, of increasing language support on the one hand and increasing backward compatibility with CP437 DOS apps on the other.
It actually never occurred to me that it might be a visual confusion – I went straight for my character set database and grepped it!