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From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: Article in Financial Times; Feb 7, 2001
> At 04:48 -0800 2001-02-08, J M Sykes quoted the F
Pehaps he meant http://www.worldnames.net/ ?
> I was unable to find www.worldnames.com which he cites.
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 04:48 -0800 2001-02-08, J M Sykes quoted the FT:
>
> >The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has now agreed to give
> >standard meanings to these remaining codes.
>
> Which as everyone knows, is really the International Organization for
>
Mike Sykes wrote:
> http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010207001454
> It shows a degree of ignorance that I would hardly have believed
> possible in a reputable newspaper.
"Technical" and "scientific" articles on most "reputable" newspapers are
often of that quality.
What
At 04:48 -0800 2001-02-08, J M Sykes quoted the FT:
>The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has now agreed to give
>standard meanings to these remaining codes.
Which as everyone knows, is really the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO).
Sigh.
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Michael Everson ** Ever
I got a reference to the following from ACM TechNews - Wednesday, February
7, 2001, so some may have seen it already.
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010207001454
It shows a degree of ignorance that I would hardly have believed possible in
a reputable newspaper. I know
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