Re: Wasteful internationalization

["Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>]

On Feb 2, 4:48 pm, Björn 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.

                          -- Adam