"Patrik F{ltstr|m" looks correct on a Swedish 7-bit terminal. It looks
hideous with no resemblance to the Swedish reality on a US-ASCII, JIS, or any
other non-Swedish terminal.
It looks allright on my Danish terminal. It would look alright on any
terminal running national versions of ISO 646 in the countries:
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
That is a big part of Europe.
Anyway I agree with you that we should do Euro-centric solutions.
A quick remark to John Klensin: I *do* have mnemonics for the
east-asian languages, and JIS is officially employing these
mnemonics in their POSIX Japanese locale specification.
Some 24.000 mnemonics have been defined. So Ran Atkinson's
indication that mnemonic is not technical viable for eastern-asian
languages is simply not true. On the other hand, I understand that
the Japanese are happy with their EUC encoding, which is 7-bit
and in wide use in networking, so they do not need mnemonic.
Maybe Ran is hinting at Vietnamese support, which is currently
lacking in RFC-MNEM, but I have done work on it, and you cannot
expect everything to happen overnight.
Keld