>> I AGREE! I have YET to see charactes like Michiel used in the English >> language to represent the name Bjoern.
> As I wrote in a message to Dale, technically speaking the messages Michiel > send are correct. Many reader/editors cannot handle UTF-8 and present the > 16 bit charactes as two separate characters.
True, many readers/editors cannot handle this.
> What motivates Michiel to use a Character set that many systems > cannot properly decode is for him to explain.
Indeed.
> I will get myself a bag of popcorn and watch the show.
All Michiel has to do is be honest with himself and note that the node number displayed for the candidate was correct. All else is folly IMO.
> As for Bob's keybord, Bjorn and Bjoern are both within it limits end less > offending. It is not thet the name is new to him. Both Bob and Bjorn have > been around for a very long time.