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From: kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Umlaute [was: naive (...question about uncial...) ]
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Date: 23 May 91 15:32:30 GMT
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tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
>The problem is not that computer programs are incompatible with it;
>_I_ am incompatible with it. It is a pain having to get used to
>different keyboards for different languages, having to deal with
>different string ordering conventions, etc.

Well, then: _I_ am incompatible with alternative representations for the
real german Umlauts (tm). No program and no book using german language with
these poor excuses for real characters will survive any encounter with me
with netnews being the only exception (and this is only, because otherwise I
will have no news at all, which is even worse :-). This is my mother
language and I will not tolerate any of these ASCII cruelties you do to it.

Thank you.

>No country can be "forced" to give up their orthograpy.

Right.

Kristian

PS: Please excuse any cruelties I did to your mother language.

Kristian Koehntopp, Harmsstrasse 98, 2300 Kiel, +49 431 676689
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