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From: kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: foreign letters are very foreign to some...
Keywords: Please do not treat me as a second class person.
Message-ID: <5907@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 88 23:24:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: csli.5907
Reply-To: kasper@csli.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
Lines: 35

Flame on....
I find it plain simply amazing what kind of ignorence the way some
products handle the letters. Foreign lettes they are called. Well that
ofcause a matter of view. To me it is no more forign to use a `O' with
a `/' through than to use it with out the `/'. Now I am not going to
complain about sharewaree programs were not all letters are lettrs, that
is to be expected (if I find a shareware program that prevents me from
writing my own name I just do not pay for it). But I feel I can complain
about professional programs that I go to the store and buys. Test it first
some people would say. Sure I test it first, and a program like `Kind words'
got the knife right away. Then there is this my case with TxEd+. I wanted
to get the best with ARexx to connect it up to AmigaTeX. And I tried it out
to see if it accepted `normal' as well as `foreign' letters - and it worked
fine. Or so I thought. There is a strange bug that renders the program 
close to useless for me when I want to write in danish. When using the word
wrap around mode, and the word to be wrapped contains a `foreign' letter,
that letter is deleted, and a `newline' is inserted instead. So one can not
just type along and depend on the wordwrap mode.
Flame off...

Now I otherwise are very happy with TxEd+, and use it all the time. This
is just a plea to those of you who are developers. To me it is 
important that the program you work with can handle `foreign' letters
in exactly the same way as `domestic' letters. 

A few prominent programs that seems only ment for english speaking persons
are DPaintII and Photon Paint. 

--Kasper

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