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Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?



On Wednesday 19 April 2006 14:33, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 07:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 07:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > >>No. If you look closely, you'll see that I put those symbols
> > > >>inside of slash marks. That means that they are phonemes,
> > > >>and the /j/ phoneme indicates a sound similar to the consonantal
> > > >>"y" in English, as in "yet". As an example of another two words
> > > >
> > > > Oh, "j" like "jagermeister"?
> > >
> > > Yes, similar, except that should be "Jaegermeister".
> >
> > Nope, it's Jägermeister.  It's one of my favorite drinks.
>
> How do you type "non-American Standard Code for Information Inter-
> change" characters?

I do it using compose-character-"-a and can't remember how I do it in 
Windows...stupid alt codes...

Besides, even the US uses UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 or -15 now.

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