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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.171258.19767@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:12:58 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.

How true, but don't think I used the abbreviation ASCII in my posting.
Anyway, since the IBM PC doesn't use ASCII, but an extended version of
it, wouldn't it be sensible (in many cases) to let everyone use the
whole character set?

Well, I think so, but everyone should decide for themselves. I do,
however, ask you to let me use 8 bit characters, but if you don't let
me, you might have one customer less.

I don't intend this to be taken as a flame, a complaint, or anything
like that. I don't want to complain about any particular program or
group of people, I just hope that this thread makes the issue a little
bit better known.
-- 
Lars Wirzenius     wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi