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2002-02-09
One would think that because of NAFTA, all keyboards made
and sold in North America would be tri-lingual. Thus making it easy
to type each others languages (English, French and Spanish). But, I
guess that would confuse Americans who have tunnel vision and would freak out if
they saw all different types of letters surrounded by all kinds of different
marks.
The same reason we don't see use of dual units. Some
Americans get upset when SI is even present along with FFU. They must be
afraid others might like SI and actually start using it. In order to
preserve the use of FFU in the world, FFU must reign alone.
John
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Sent: Friday, 2002-02-08 21:55
Subject: [USMA:18070] RE: US
International?...
In a message dated 2002-02-08 14:26:38 Eastern Standard
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writes:
Start | Settings | Control Panel | Keyboard | Language |
Properties
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI
Navigator]
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Behalf Of Ma Be
Sent: Friday,
February 08, 2002 08:10
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject:
[USMA:18050] US International?...
Wow, Bill! That's
neat. Thanks for letting me know, now... Could you
please
share with me how I could set my PC up for that? It would be
greatly
appreciated (I own a PC under Windows ME, BTW). I was
starting to think
that I'd have to go all the way to Brazil to buy me
another keyboard... :-S
Now, on the other hand how in the world
would one access the acute, umlaut
and the cedilla things on a standard
US board?...
Thanks for the
feedback.
Marcus
Well, when my kids trashed my
keyboard with food and drink, I replaced it with a Canadian bilingual
keyboard, $24.95 from Dell. Works great and has all the
accents.
Carleton
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