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From: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: ASCII, SHMASCII.
Message-ID: <2566@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:40:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> <1991Jun15.220717.20911@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1991Jun18.110915.21631@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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In article <1991Jun18.110915.21631@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ron@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Ron Van Schyndel) writes:
>In <1991Jun15.220717.20911@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>
>>By the way, the seemingly endless stream of 7-bit-only software that
>>refuses to accept Finnish text as input gives me a poor impression of
>>the US culture. Or rather, it would, if I didn't know better.
>
>Um....ASCII == American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
>               ^^^^^^^^    :-)

But American != USA.  America also covers Canda, Mexico, and South America,
which includes French, Spanish, Portugese, and others.  (Do Eskimos (sp) use
PCs?)  





// Shaun
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