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From: leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Can "vi" handle chars above 127 ASCII?
Keywords: X/Open vi
Message-ID: <32667@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 89 17:19:20 GMT
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In article <25753@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>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.

    Fine.  I'd like a nice, neat way of typing control-A and ESC
without twisting my fingers in knots, characters I need to type far
more often than "god damn foreigner names."  Internationalized
keyboards don't tend to provide this capability, which was the point I
tried to make.

>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).

    Once again, your gratuitous obscenities are unrelated to my
original posting.  The only person whose "chain was jerked" here is
yourself.

    Try reading the Usenet posting guidelines sometime.

    This is completely irrelevant to comp.editors at this point.
Followups redirected to alt.flame.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
    Apple Integrated Systems
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