Re: Anything of interest from the Bootcamp ?

On 26/10/2024 00:03, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 10/25/2024 6:37 PM, Chris Townley wrote:

On 25/10/2024 23:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:29:09 -0400, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

There will be a boot camp in Malmo ...

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Isn’t that Malmö?

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What the F*k is that about?

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He is referring to the fact that the city's name in
all languages except Danish is Malmö (in Danish it is
Malmø).
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ö = \u00F6
ø = \u00F8
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I suspect that Robert neither know these letters nor has a keyboard
setup to enter them.
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So he just used Malmo.
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The official translation to English alphabet of both ö and ø is oe,
but few outside Scandinavia knows that - heck even many in Scandinavia
doesn't know that.
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And it gets really funny when a 8 to 7 bit conversion strip the
high bit so ö -> v and ø -> x.
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Arne
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 I was aware of some of that, but it is typical troll behaviour - nitpicking.
 Most of us are getting fed up with him (as are many usenet groups) but you just play to him. Don't feed him!