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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Can "vi" handle chars above 127 ASCII?
Keywords: X/Open vi
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Date: 25 Jun 89 06:48:15 GMT
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In article <32663@apple.Apple.COM> leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech) writes:
>In article <25745@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>>In article <32661@apple.Apple.COM> leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech) writes:

>>As everyone with an IQ of more than 127 knows, GAWD proclaimed that anyone
>>who did not speak ASCII with an American accent was bound to go to hell,
>>the opinions of Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, Indians, and ninety-plus
>>percent of the computer-using bodies on this planet notwithstanding.
>
>    As anyone who read the complete text of my posting will realize,
>your comment is completely irrelevant to mine.	I referred to
>keyboards, not character sets.

Wellllll, pardon me for jerking your chain. I should have realized that
anyone affiliated with "Apple Integrated Systems" must have an inside
track to GAWD. Nevertheless, as an American (three generations on the
maternal side, five generations on the paternal side), I still have a
dim awareness that not all of the world ~types~ American acented ascii.
Indeed, true red-blooded, DAR-certified American that I am, there are
times (about every two or three minutes) when I wish that ~keyboard~
manufacturers realized that not everyone was typing the names of
generic wasps (smith, jones, leech, etc.) into an airline reservation
system.

I'd like a nice, neat way of typing some real god damn foreigner names
without twisting my fingers in knots.

Finally, on the principle that a barking dog ought to really have
something to bark about, let me observe, as a specialist in modern
Japanese history, that Apple Fornicated (or otherwise) Systems has an
almost zero presence in the world's second largest computer market.
Even the Intentionally Banal Machines Corporation can do better than
that (about 27 percent better).