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[Sakari Jalovaara]
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|   > On the other hand, if you are in an environment where some or all of
|   > the "national" characters have been redefined, making the standard
|   > ASCII graphics unavailable,
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|   So far, there has been no proof that such an environment exists.

It exists, but programmers never experience it.  Good C programmers
never write natural language text in the source files, anyway, and so
have _no_ problems with the soi disant "national characters".  Bad and
mediocre C programmers who have a problem with national characters,
should load a new font or buy a new terminal, not impose trigraph and
digraph bullshit on the world.  Programmers and/or companies hiring them
who can't afford a new terminal with the proper character set should be
put on a black list published widely within the user communities.

Enough of this stupidity, already.

It turned out that there is _one_ Norwegian, in a little over 4,200,000,
who was sufficiently interested in the work in progress in JTC 1/SC 22
to want to establish a SC 22 "peer group" who could vote on SC 22 work,
and now we don't even have O (Observatory) status in SC 22.  If the same
is true for Denmark, and I have some reason to think it is, you should
direct your flames towards Keld Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>, and ask him to
buy a new terminal instead of harrassing the C community with his funny
proposals.

If he can't afford it, despite drawing massive funds from the Nordic
Council for his "7-bit character set backward compatibility" dinosaur,
we could all send $1 to Danish Standards and request that he get a new
terminal, or a new machine if enough people send money, as a belated
Christmas present from The Net.  He may not enjoy it, but I'm sure the
entire C community will, and for many, many years to come.

Happy New Year, C community!  Good grief.

Best regards,
</Erik>
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