John Hobson
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville, IL
(312) 979-0193
ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2
Hodie tempus scribere in latino non habeo, cras epistulum submissibo.
All in all:
C'est dommage, mais c'est vrai.
So please, in fairness to those of us who wish to replay to your Dutch and
Latin and ... in Chinese or ..., please refrain from such postings.
xiexie ni
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Now finally we are getting to the bottom of things:
ASCII ISN'T GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT ENGLISH.
If you would be able to speak dutch or french or german (as I do) then
you would know that all of these languages have problems about being
represented in ASCII (American Stupid Code .....).
I know that there are national character sets defined but there is no
way that you can mix them on any terminal I have heard of. This means that
if you live in a multi language environment (as I do) than you will
always have to use English once you turn to the keyboard. And believe me
some language are able to say things much clearer than English could.
So if this seems unclear than blame English NOT me.
PS. "ouwe hoeren is ook een vak"
And all this technology is available NOW!
Steve Hayman
watmath!watcgl!sahayman
pacem, frater.
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Dr Memory
...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb
How about that! AMERICAN Standard Code for Information Interchange. I
don't see anything in there about any other country, and the language
of choice here is English.
Let the rest of them come up with their *own* standards. "That's the nice
thing about standards - there's so many to choose from..." (Tanenbaum)
It's not Asshole's Suckjaw Code for Idiotic Isolence either, so ENUFF!
Randy King
AT&T/CP-MG
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Come to think of it maybe ASCII code was developed by the CIA
to keep YOU people from talking over the netnews to others.
This means that you will be safely kept in your cocoon of hamburgers,
wombats, 55 mile limits (Is that the distance that you are allowed to
travel or what?), net.jokes and rotate-13.
But anyway WE should really be making or own standards:
En dan nu dus maar weer wat nederlands met daarin enkele voor de
AMERIKANEN bekenden kreten als KGB en CIA en andere zaken om ze achter
dochtig te maken. Voor diegenen die dit lezen kunnen: waneer zie ik
eens wat uit holland.
Rete virumque cano,
Maybe not, but you'll get lots of argument about first-declension nouns!
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel