On 06/23/2016 11:26 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
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[1]. Actually, the English alphabet had more letters: þ, ð, ƿ[2] and ȝ, but
they got dropped as early printing presses imported from Germany lacked
these characters.  Before the technology was copied and fonts could be
manufactured domestically, the English suddenly had orders of magnitude more
reading material lacking their letters than older handwritten works.
(This is a gross simplification.)  So let's have this in mind when you skip
support for non-modern-English characters.

Funny how this is now the other way around with ß.

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