Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site enea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Diacritics... Message-ID: <886@enea.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 18:56:20 EDT Article-I.D.: enea.886 Posted: Thu Aug 22 18:56:20 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 00:47:58 EDT References: <258@jenny.UUCP> <488@talcott.UUCP> Reply-To: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Followup-To: net.nlang Distribution: net Organization: ENEA DATA, Sweden Lines: 20 Thomas Breuel writes: >Why am I arguing about this at all? The existence of national >characters is a problem: it requires special equipment and impedes >trade and information exchange. I have experienced these problems You've got it all wrong. The existence is not the problem. The problem is that some people - like you for instance - think the world is completely computerized. It isn't so. The very vast majority of the people in the world don't know anything about computers and ASCII As a consequence hereof they would very much disagree of changing the spelling just "because of the computer". If you think I'm wrong with this opion I think you should try to convince you grand-mother - or any other person who don't deal with computers - about the absolute nessecity about removing "A, "O and "U from German. Do that before you write your next reply.