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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.195900.9526@uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:59:00 GMT
References: <27139@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <27139@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer) writes:
:
>  Trash to you, not to me, and not to tens of millions of PC users.
>I might, someday, use the 8th bit support of an editor, but I'm not
>holding my breath.  Just like your editor you proposed above wouldn't
:

One thought on this, if I may.  Don't you ever draw boxes with your
editor.  If you do, you need the 8-bit characters whatever your
nationality.  Likewise, don't you ever use any of the (scanty)
mathematical symbols in the upper ascii.  Even if the rest of the
world is of little consequence to many U.S. programmers (if I've
interpreted some of the arguments from the States correctly), why
wouldn't this be a consideration in the 7-bit vs 8-bit dilemma.

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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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