Re: Bootcamp

In article <1026kum$hpp1$1@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

On 2025-06-07, Arne Vajh�j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 6/7/2025 3:24 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 17:06:31 +1000, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

... just what went down at Malmo?

 
I think that?s either ?Malm�? or ?Malm�?, depending on which side of the
�resund (or is that �resund?) you?re on ...

>
It is �resund in Danish and �resund in Swedish, but it may be
most correct to use Malm� and �resund, because Sweden got the
city from Denmark in 1658 (due to cold weather!!!!), but the
waterway stayed with Denmark (and Denmark collected tax from
ships sailing through until 1857).
>

>
$ set response/mode=good_natured
>
Us crazy Europeans and the fact we refuse to restrict ourselves to
using good old 7-bit US ASCII. :-)

"Us"?  Aren't you in the UK?  :-D :-D :-D

(Too soon?)

What is interesting is how some same word spellings are pronounced
differently depending on which European country you are in.

I've always found this criticism of ASCII kind of weird.  Of
course it's US-centric; it was designed in the US.  The "A"
stands for "American", after all.

If a character set had been designed in some European country, I
would expect it to be localized to that country's writing
system; it wouldn't be reasonable for me to be upset that it did
not cater to the US in that case, because the US didn't invent
it.

- Dan C.