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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: <1991Jun19.113035.1129@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 19 Jun 91 11:30:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.110915.21631@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1991Jun18.171258.19767@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <22406@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <22406@duke.cs.duke.edu> kds@physics.phy.duke.edu (Stokes Kevin) 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.                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   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.

I didn't. You left out the last sentence of the paragraph:

: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.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That last sentence was meant to indicate that I didn't think that the
whole of the US is a mob of 7-bit minded, f*ck-the-rest-of-the-world
and we're-better-than-they-are morons. There are such people in the US,
but that kind of people are everywhere. Also, there are lots of
considerate people in the US that try very hard to make their software
work in as many countries as possible.
-- 
Lars Wirzenius     wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi