Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2006-04-19 10:50:06, schrieb Paul Johnson:

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:

Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a text-only message.

There isn't anything non-ISO about "ä", including it in a message doesn't make it "not text only". The "ae" is a poorman form of "æ".


You forget, that the american brain is limited
to 128 characters called US-ASCII.

You forget what the "A" in "ASCII" means. If you Europeans
want to take over something we made for ourselves, then
you should at least have used the techniques for extending
it which were built in. ASCII is a 7 bit code. It is extensible
by using the SI and SO which were specifically intended for
that. Also it has ESC and DLE which are useful for extending
and transmitting such kinds of codes.

But no, you have to screw it up.

Mike
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