At 09:33 19-01-1997, Karl Hoover wrote:
>Yo Al,
>Just a little hint:
>The umlauts, accents graves and accents acuts don't
>come out for us English people.
Eric Responded:
but that's enterily the fault of you english people by forcing on the rest
of the world a very limited character set called ascii. The 15 years i'm
using computers has been an ongoing struggle with that. So if some
cyber-anarchists hace some spare time left, they could attack the tyranny
of ascii.
Karl:
Good lord, man, do you have some axes to grind? I can't really help being a 'Merkin. It's just that it seems that all Turkish words have umlauts in 'em which come out as rather unmeaningul little boxes on my telnet session. [8(]
P.S.
How are things over on 'a-infos@global.com' have all
the 'interesting' well-informed people gone over there?
Do i need to subscribe to TWO anarchy discussion lists?
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Karl Hoover
Amateur Peasant
San Khoze, Kalifornia
Today's Quote:
The means are the ends. -Ursula. K. LeGuin
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