Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 02:03 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson:
> > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
> > > the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
> > > into a text-only message.
> >
> > There isn't anything non-ISO about "ä", including it in a message doesn't make
> > it "not text only". The "ae" is a poorman form of "æ".
>
> You forget, that the american brain is limited
> to 128 characters called US-ASCII.
That's because we don't need any more. It gives our brains more
room to successfully figure out how to convince people to pay US$80
for pieces of denim cloth stitched together by workers in Malaysian
sweat shops.
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