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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Character representation
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 12:26:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 12:26:41 1987
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>   I think that the simple represenatation for charcters is completely
> due the dominating position of the English language in the computer
> world. If computers had been invented in France the problem would
> have been solved...

Surely you jest!  If the French had invented computers, the official
rationale for FRSCII (or whatever it would be called :-)) would go to
great lengths to explain why cedillas were part of God's plan but no
civilized human being would ever put pairs of dots above letters!
The best summary I've ever heard was "those who speak English don't
really believe that other languages exist; those who speak French know
that other languages exist, but can't understand why".
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