Subject: Re: Style on "@" From: mkent@starnews.com (Mike Kent) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:21:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: Style on "@"
From: mkent@starnews.com (Mike Kent)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:21:14 -0400
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At 10:03 AM 8/24/96, Joe Shea wrote:
> 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?
probably because their systems are written by programming geeks, not
real-world users.
Mike Kent mkent@starnews.com
OnLine System Administrator (800) 743-3333, then (317) 630-9563
Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc. fax (317) 633-1220
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