RE: Linguistic precedence

From: brendan_murray@lotus.com
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 20:42:06 EDT


jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com wrote:
>> not to be capitalized. Writing POBLACHT NA HIODÁILE would in fact be an
error.
>
> Cool. Or horrible, if you have to write software to handle this :-)

I was taken away to a little room in Dusseldorf airport when an alert
official spotted what he assumed was pretty amateurish forgery in my
passport. The thing had been issued by the Irish Embassy = "Ambasáid na
hÉireann" and he wasn't at all impressed by the little "h".

B=



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