Re: Bootcamp

On 2025-06-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 6/9/2025 11:58 AM, Dan Cross wrote:

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.

>
The Western European alphabets are supersets of the English alphabet,
so the UK/US would not be missing any letters.
>
But if we for Western European alphabets take the abomination
known as ISO-646/ECMA-6, then all SW people will be missing
something. ASCII [\]{|} are among those used for national characters.
>

Hey! That was once considered to be a viable solution. :-)

Simon.

PS: Just in case: $ set response/mode=good_natured

PPS: Thankfully those times have passed.

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