On 2004.07.07, 00:49, Mike Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Are you implying that, had printers throughout the centuries put the
> effort into faithfully reproducing every obscure symbol

I spell my own name with some of those obscure symbols, thank you.
Obscure indeed -- that's the last thing I'd expect in a list such as
this! Is internationalization is serious issue, or just a toy to kill
off idle time?

> from every foreign language, that the modern American would accept
> words with arbitrary diacritics?

"Foreign"? "American"? I obviously misunderstood the whole purpose of
these discussions, then. Bye bye -- will back as soon as I get my
Green Card, señor! >;-)

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