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Date:      08 Sep 1998 22:23:49 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: P-Day tomorrow!
Message-ID:  <xzplnnus696.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:58:39 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <199809081858.LAA04897@usr07.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> ...And if it's every rolled in, I insist that it be called...
> 
> 	"non-spacing Umlaat day"

Why "Umlaut"? Why does everybody have to call that ¨ an umlaut? Why
does the HTML entity for ï have to be &iuml? Why use a German word
when there's a perfectly good English word for the bloody double-dot:
DIARESIS for chrissake!

DES (yes, it's one of my pet peeves. I have one in my name.)
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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