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Re: support for multilingual Packages files?



Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
> 
> And besides... proper English _does_ have diacritics (naive being the most
> often cited example, Pokemon perhaps more familiar today), just
> those ignorant Americans <duck, run> do not realize it.

Those words aren't originally English. They're adopted/adapted from other
languages. English uses the Roman alphabet, 26 letters only. In proper
English, the funny marks over the vowels all disappear.

Disclaimer: I'm not an American. I'll leave the judgement of ignorance up to
others. ;)
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