From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87g04vr7ik.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20020122182852.0CEC719981@mail.cse.psu.edu>, <3C5030CA.179C89F3@strakt.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:34:44 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43f5e5f4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 boyd@strakt.com (Boyd Roberts) writes: > "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/ Well, there are lots of multibyte fans out there still. But hey, it was really the very first guess; I think they should get *some* credit. :)