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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Here's an EASY one for you
Message-ID: <1086@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 06:50:44 GMT
References: <18f0bf14.ARN1771@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1080@cbmger.UUCP> <18f4a5c4.ARN12b9@jsmami.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <18f4a5c4.ARN12b9@jsmami.UUCP> cbmehq!cbmdeo!jsmami!jsmoller (Jesper S. Moller) writes:
>In article <1080@cbmger.UUCP>, Peter Kittel GERMANY writes:
>
>Because some people think that the national ECMA chars are for fun,
>and that an IBM charset would have been more appropriate. Ever logged
>onto a BBS system without some ibm.font ?
>
>(Actually it might help in hex-dumps, as the more dots there are, the
>easier it is to spot text. BTW: 2.0 Type does use national chars. That's
>probably your idea, right? ;-)

Now I'm blamed. Yes, I put an enhancement request on this, but only
now I realized through your mentioning it, that it has been successful!
But there are still many dots in hex dumps. Let's hope they didn't omit
as many chars as you mentioned.

>At least you don't have a name like M0LLER, with a national character in it.
>That's not funny. Try teaching an American or even a Brit how to pronounce
>it...

Yeah, but when I try to spell someone my name via phone, you can bet
they reverse the last two letters of my past name...

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