Ar 10:31 -0700 1999-07-20, scríobh Torsten Mohrin:
>On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 08:28:17 -0700 (PDT), Michael Everson wrote:
>
>>All text should be written in the Universal Character Set in preference to
>>ANY OTHER character set. Please the gods and the stockholders, this will be
>>available to all of us soon.
>
>Okay, we should use UCS. ASCII is very US centered, but it's a nice
>little subset for special things, like programming languages and stuff
>like that.
You might not be conformant if you forbid characters. :-)
>>>We use only English based identifiers.
>>
>>As an educated native speaker of English I would like to inform you that
>>even English, correctly spelled, requires characters other than the letters
>>A-Z, as in naturalized words such as façade, café, vicuña, and so on.
>
>Yes, I heard of it :) I should say "We use English based identifiers
>and kick away those accents" ;-)
Well, don't. When you do that you abuse a very fine language.
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