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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/23
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Date: 1997-04-23T00:00:00+00:00
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<<If this seems confusing, it's because the pound sterling symbol was
converted to the 7-bit ASCII string "=A3" by a MIME converter somewhere.
So, he's saying he paid M-#12 sterling, (12 pounds sterling), currently
about $19.60 US.>>

It would be helpful if everyone would realize that going to the upper
half of Latin-1 is likely to cause such troubles -- we often get
bug reports that are totally destroyed by these strange =xx sequences.

If you are posting to international newsgroups, it is a good idea to
stick to the lower half of the Latin-1 set (i.e. what used to be called
ASCII in the old days :-)