= Сообщение: 808 из 7128 ======================================= FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Roy Witt 1:387/22 09 Dec 13 16:16:12 Кому : Election Coordinator 09 Dec 13 16:16:12 Тема : Error in Ruling on the 2013 FTSC election FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:387/22+52a64361 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:2/20+52a48dd7 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== ============================================================================== De Election Coordinator wrote in error to All about Ruling on the protests filed in the 2013 FTSC election:
EC> A protest was filed by three parties. One by RC17, Bob Seaborn EC> and one by ZC1, Janis Kracht and one by Ross Cassel RC18.
EC> An attempt at mediation by Scott Little has failed because of EC> lack of respons from RC14 and RC17.
EC> Regarding the protest filed by Bob Seaborn, RC17:
BS>> Is it my fault that that MY keyboard and video doees not BS>> support non-english characters?
EC> 1) The sysop is responsible for what his system injects into EC> the network. So if this presumed non-support of those EC> characters results in errors, then yes, the sysop is responsible.
EC> 2) Although it is not in the ASCII character set, characters with EC> a diaresis /are/ part of te English characters set, notably EC> in some English names: Emily Brontë, Noël Coward and the EC> constellation of Boötes. The fact that the diaresis is usually EC> omitted in US English does not change the fact that the o with EC> diaresis IS part of the character set used in English.
#2 is in error, as there are only 26 characters in the modern English alphabet, none with a diaresis in it.
All characters that also include a diaresis used in a name/word have been adopted from the language of which the word is borrowed.
Emily Brontë, Noël Coward and the constellation of Boötes use borrowed characters from the language of origin. In a modern English dictionary or encyclopedia, one can look these up using the English spelling, Emily Bronte, Noel Coward and Bootes and find the same definition.
If you can point us to an official modern day English alphabet that consists of more than 26 characters, I'd be surprised.