From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 13:41:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09556 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09496; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:40:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id WAA20673; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 22:23:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 22:23:50 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-Day tomorrow! References: <199809081858.LAA04897@usr07.primenet.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 08 Sep 1998 22:23:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:58:39 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA09504 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert 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 ï? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message