Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
Tony Godshall wrote:
According to Mike McCarty,
Michelle Konzack wrote:
You forget, that the american brain is limited
to 128 characters called US-ASCII.
You forget what the "A" in "ASCII" means. If you Europeans
want to take over something we made for ourselves, then
you should at least have used the techniques for extending
it which were built in. ASCII is a 7 bit code. It is extensible
by using the SI and SO which were specifically intended for
that. Also it has ESC and DLE which are useful for extending
and transmitting such kinds of codes.
But no, you have to screw it up.
Mike
<nitpick>
Sadly you forget that most of the populations of the American
continents do in fact use letters with accents and tildes
which are sadly lacking in the supposedly "American Standard Code".
Well, since my first language is Spanish, I guess I *don't*
forget that. This fact has been mentioned by me in other
messages in this same thread.
</nitpick>
Otherwise a very cogent comment.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Mike
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