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	How does a big outfit like Harris dvelop a pagination system 
without taking a tilde into account in its character sets, anyway?  Why 
is it so few nespapers are capable of using the umlauts and circumflexes 
and accents aigu and grave that are part of the larger world we have 
become co lose to now?

Best,

Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html


On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Roger Price wrote:

> Well, up here in Alaska, we jumped into the modern world last summer with 
> a Harris pagination system, and the @ prints just the way we type it.
> 
> However, the tilde is another matter. Our pagination terminals have 
> replaced the tilde with an en space and we have had to resort to writing 
> (tilde) in web addresses. This has led to at least two tirades from 
> indignant reporters who could not believe that our system would not print 
> a tilde. They were convinced it was just another copy desk conspiracy 
> against them. Since even our systems guy is stumped, I guess we are just 
> the victims of what we thought was modern technology.
> 
> Of course, my response is that we would not have these problems if we had 
> just bought a Mac system. :-)
> 
> BTW, if anyone knows the harris code for a tilde, I might be able to 
> temper some of the reporters' disdain for the desk.
> 
> Roger (I'm still a copy editor despite what my sig says)
> 
> Roger Price, online editor
> Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
> roger@newsminer.com
> web@newsminer.com
> http://www.newsminer.com
> 
> 

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