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clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

> In article <1992Nov9.143345.18466@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin F
> >In article <1992Nov9.132448.26542@rdg.dec.com>, kostis@frsmic.enet.dec.com (
> >|> In article <3949@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>, clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris 
> 
> >The way to solve this problem is not to slag off the American
> >mentality (which isn't as bad as you suggest) 
> 
> Oh, you're another person who thinks I'm American.  Note my
> Organization line.

Sorry, I think that's my fault... My article implied it.   ;-)

> >8-bit cleanliness.  If people find that they need a new service, they
> >will be far more likely than otherwise to go through the pain of
> >re-installing their news system.
> 
> But it will still take time.  That's what I was saying.

OK. Let's take the time...  ;-)

> Well, how about this?:  I'm a member of the Canadian POSIX working group,
> formulating the Canadian position (and vote) on the POSIX 1003.x standards.
> 8859-1 is absolutely essential for Canada (French accents), and we've
> been spending most of our time trying to fix some internationalization
> botches in 1003.1 and .2, ie: PAX file name character sets.  It was
> Canada's lobbying that led to the final 10646/Unicode/8859-1 accord.

How about this? You're just my man!  ;-)

> Or: I was one of the people contributing to AT&T's decision to finally
> make DWB troff 8 bit clean and support 8859-1.

Well, seems like I've hit the *right* guy, right?... ;-)

> Does *that* sound like "American-USASCII-arrogance"?

No, not at all. Consider me to feel sorry. 

> >I simply maintained (in my original post in this thread) that change
> >is not something that will come easily.
> 
> That's all that I was saying.  We agreed.  And then you think I'm American.
> That's not very nice ;-)

We shouldn't annoy our US American fellows too much, should we?  ;-)

Honestly, I didn't mean to annoy people, I just think it's important
and I really won't accept anything but "we're working on it"... =;^)

> >|> sw-authors: please support ISO 8859-1   dv|DV\_=aeoeueAEOEUEss
> 
> I do!  I do!

Yeah, and at least some people in europe *do* appreciate it very much!

Best regards from a greek living in Germany

        Kosta


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