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From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Diacritics...
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 18:56:20 EDT
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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.