From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 13:53:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11360 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11319; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA02328; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 22:47:52 +0200 (CEST) To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Terry Lambert , mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-Day tomorrow! In-reply-to: Your message of "08 Sep 1998 22:23:49 +0200." Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 22:47:52 +0200 Message-ID: <2326.905287672@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >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! That is very simple, since the germans are one of the worlds greatest producers and consumers of the bloddy things, the boxes they come in of course are labeled in German :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message