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From: kooijman@duteca2.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
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Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
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Date: 17 Jun 91 06:26:10 GMT
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mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:

>We have a large world here, and Iceland is a small country.  If we all
>knew how Icelandic characters are normally entered in an Icelandic
>editor, more editors would provide for the entry of Icelandic characters.

>By the way, this seeming universal expression of counterproductive
>disgust from Iceland gives me a poor impression of Icelandic culture.

Well, they were only making a point here. Their are many other countries
where this editor is unusable for the same reasons.
So let them complain, the attitude of programmers that English speaking
countries are the only ones to program for gives me a poor impression
of them.


Richard.