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Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
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From: Markus E Leypold
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Bj�rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> writes:

> Markus E Leypold wrote:
>
>> Bj�rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> writes:
>> 
>>> Bah! That was supposed to be a ?. (Obviously Knode, my Usenet client, is
>> 
>> Was that supposed to be rendered as a box? Or does _my_ client not get it
>> right?
>
> A box is often displayed when there is no glyph available for the character.

I know, therefore my question. 

> I see your client switches encodings as needed and the pi is intact in your
> reply, so apparently SCUG is cool enough to understand MIME and UTF-8, but

SCUG is Gnus with gnushus.el :-).

> you probably don't have any Greek fonts installed.

Yes, that might be.

Yes, 'PI' as greek letter in programs might be nice. But is h-bar
(Plack constant) somewhere in Unicode? :-)


Regards -- Markus