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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Author rebuttal on Aled
Message-ID: <3308@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 27 Jun 91 09:31:07 GMT
References: <3471@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <3303@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <2831@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <2831@nemesis.stsci.edu> roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) writes:
>present.  Most editors written in the US do take care of the 8th bit,

Most.  But NOT all.  And somehow I manage to stumble accross those that don't
:-(

>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. 

Yes.  It should!  (otherwise it is limited for the USA (allmost) only.)
It certainly will be, here in Iceland (and the rest of Europe), *rather* much
limited.

>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,

What?  I tried entering our national characters the standard way, (just as
I can in (for example) edlin).  They didn't enter.  (I tried four of them
and none registered.)  I then tried the alt-numberic-trick.  That worked.

Conclusion:
	Unusable for me and my national characters!  I certainly don't mean
to spend my time, entering our characters through the numberic keypad.


I have allready sent the author an apologie, and since I haven't found any
'bounced' messages in my mailbox (yet), I hope he has red it :-)


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