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From: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Author rebuttal on Aled
Message-ID: <2831@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 20:48:27 GMT
References: <3471@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <3303@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts)
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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In article <3303@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
>Ok.  It doesn't mask the 8th bit.  Sorry for that statement without trying
>it out fully.
[...]
>I am sorry for my first posting, but when I found out that Aled didn't
>allow me to enter my national characters, something snapped.  ("The straw
>that broke the camels back")
>My posting was ment to bring attention of the problem of other nations than
>USA.  

That's not how it appeared to me.  "Something snapped" alright,
something like a snapping turtle, which doesn't spend a lot of time in
self-examination and isn't very particular about what it eats.

It has seemed to me throughout this debate that taking care of the 8th
bit is the hygienic way to write general editors for personal use.
Editors for international communications are another matter at
present.  Most editors written in the US do take care of the 8th bit,
so there aren't a lot of grounds for complaint.  It shouldn't be
necessary for everyone to *have* to reserve the 8th bit as character
data. 

For you and a few others to rant on and on about how Americans aren't
writing for your use, and not even display the diligence (or
expertise?) to actually look at the product you are complaining about,
shows either a lot of cheek (chutzpah) or a lack of responsibility.
So let's see more responsible communications from Iceland!

Chutzpah: "I'd like to buy a book on chutzpah, and I want you to pay
for it."



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Jim Roberts	roberts@stsci.edu	scivax::roberts