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

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Wulfy wrote:
> > Digby Tarvin wrote:
> >
> > > ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII 
> > > in a standard way.
> > >   
> >
> > Unicode is text...  just not ASCII.
>
> So is Hiragana. So is Kanji. So is Arabic. So is Hebrew. So is Cyrillic.
> So?
Digby said that ISO wasn't text only ASCII was...
> > > the 'J' and the 'germeister'. If I use vi or cat to view the message, I
> > > see 'J=E4germeister' or 'J0xe4germeister', which is less than clear..
> > >   
> >
> > Not if you have your locale set to a UTF-8 locale like en_GB-UTF-8...
> When I read your original message I see a Cyrillic capital 'D' between
>
> Which was my point. Using "Jaegermeister" is locale independent.
So?  A misconfigured system is no reason for changing the spelling of 
something.  Change the cause not the effect...
> [snip]
>
> Mike


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