[LMB] Accents (WAS:- Two New Foreign Editions)

Elizabeth McCoy arcangel at io.com
Tue Oct 31 12:46:08 GMT 2006


At 12:15 PM +0000 10/31/06, James M. BRYANT, G4CLF wrote:
>Aha! My test in the digest has an é.
>My test in the archives has a ?
>Isn't life COMPLICATED?

On my mailing list, I just ban everything that isn't 7bit ascii. 8bit
depends way too much on the applications, the system, and the weather
in Peru. It is not even strictly ascii according to most of the people
who rant about such things, unless it is 7bit.

Thus, accents are a casualty, and whew.
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