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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
Date: 3 Feb 2007 05:52:31 -0600
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In article <1170464671.166414.311980@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> writes:
> On Feb 2, 4:48 pm, Bj=F6rn Persson <spam-a...@nowhere.nil> wrote:
>> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> > And what client on my VMS system would display those characters on my
>> > VT102 (emulator) ?
>>
>> I don't know VMS. comp.os.vms might be a better place to ask about that.
>>
>> > It seems to me that people in newsgroups should stick to ASCII.
>>
>> So, you want the entire world to use the American Standard Code? I suppose
>> we should all drop our un-American, nonstandard languages and only speak
>> and write American Standard English, right?
> 
> No way.  You Scandinavians already speak better English than most of
> us Americans do.  So it's perfectly fine for you to go on speaking
> English Standard English.  :) :) :) :)
> 
> But Larry, I think you hit a nerve when you made your comment to a
> person who has an o-umlaut in his name.  I can understand why he may
> have gotten a bit peeved---you're practically asking him not to use
> his own name on the Internet.

I try not to object to characters in names, since I do not read names
for content.