= Сообщение: 5244 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Robert Bashe 2:2448/44 21 Aug 17 10:13:58 Кому : BjФrn Felten 21 Aug 17 10:13:58 Тема : The German umlaut Щ FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+599a97f6 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+59986832 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== BjФrn Felten wrote to Robert Bashe on Saturday August 19 2017 at 18:32:
RB>> That would normally be an Umlaut "o", but my system translates it
BF> Yeah, there is that. Why?
Because the Germans have had as many problems as you have translating national alphabet characters to something people outside the country can read. How do you think someone with an Esszet in their name survives outside Germany? They either write "ss" or get used to having their name misunderstood. Ever hear of a "Rudolf Hess"? The double "ss" at the end is _one_ letter (an Esszet") in German.
BF> Some 25 years ago an umlauted O could have caused some problems with BF> the editors/readers available at that time.
BF> Nowadays, many moons later, all the FTN compatible editors/readers BF> have been updated to conform to the CHRS kludge introduced a very long BF> time ago.
BF> Only the worst hard-die USAians still cannot get it right.
You naturally mean "Americans" That's the proper term. But I'm German, so where does that put your argument?
BF> Even when they use a totally compliant editor/reader as yourself. You BF> stubbornly keep on doing "26 characters should be enough" even though BF> you can easily expand your character set to the complete ones in use BF> today.
Like Swedish? Don't make me laugh.
BF> Methinks it's you who are egotistical... :(
Bjoern, you'd win any ego test people cound devise. I couldn't even come close.
