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From: kds@physics (Stokes Kevin)
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Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
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Date: 18 Jun 91 21:16:33 GMT
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>>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.                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   You didn't intend this as a flame?  A pretty strong statement for someone
who claims they didn't intend their message as a flame.
  Most programmers probably just use DOS calls to collect user input.  I
never thought about wether I wanted 7 or 8 bit characters as input in my
programs.  Of course my customers are 98% American, so I suppose I don't
care one way or the other if Finnish folks can't type in text in their 
native gibberish.  ( Kidding.)

-Kevin

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	Kevin Stokes
	Duke University Dept. of Physics	kds@phy.duke.edu
	Durham, N.C.      27706