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Re: Euro symbol and XFree



On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:03:55AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Hah. Better that than the piss-poor ASCII-centric comp. world we had  a few
> years back.  Give it time, and you'll have a Unicode-centric comp. world.
> 
> Of course, by that time we'll wish we were using something other than
> Unicode...

  ...because even with Unicode, we'll have to do charset conversions to
communicate with our tentacled Venusian overlords, due to the
shortsightedness of the Unicode creators in not reserving codepages for
hostile extraterrestrial lifeforms...

  Daniel

  PS: :-)

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