Kevin Cooper Mar 18, 2001
>
> Non-English-speaking Guide Users,
> I have no objection to your posting in a familiar non-English
> language (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese). However, it
> is
> annoying to have your message cluttered up by =E8, =E9, =E0, etc., as
> in
> the above Subject, where you use non-ASCII characters peculiar to your
> own language. Could you use only ASCII characters, by using a simple
> letter followed by a symbol for the embellishment? For example, in
> French one could use e' for an acute-accented e, e^ for a
> grave-accented
> e, c_ for a c with cedilla, etc. In German one could substitute for
> an
> umlauted vowel a", o", or u". In Spanish one could use n~ for an n
> with
> tilde, and an inverted ! or ? could be doubled. Other such symbols
> could be invented and would be easily understood.
> Thanks, Truman
>
> Truman P. Kohman, Departments Chemistry and Physics
> Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
> Phone: 412/268-8865, 412/561-8343 Fax: 412/681-0648
> Internet: tk11+@...
> For images and coded attachments: tpkohman@...
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