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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:05:30 +0100
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"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> One misunderstanding is that "ASCII doesn't represent accents", which
> is totally wrong; it was deliberately constructed to allow for accents
> for all/many languages that use the latin alphabet.  The idea was (as
> I mentioned previously) to use overstriking.
>
> Now it turns out that the idea was not as good ...

s/not as good/ghastly/