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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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On 2025-06-09, Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <1026kum$hpp1$1@dont-email.me>,
> Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>On 2025-06-07, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 6/7/2025 3:24 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 17:06:31 +1000, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
>>>>> ... just what went down at Malmo?
>>>> 
>>>> I think that?s either ?Malmø? or ?Malmö?, depending on which side of the
>>>> Øresund (or is that Öresund?) you?re on ...
>>>
>>> It is Øresund in Danish and Öresund in Swedish, but it may be
>>> most correct to use Malmö and Øresund, because Sweden got the
>>> city from Denmark in 1658 (due to cold weather!!!!), but the
>>> waterway stayed with Denmark (and Denmark collected tax from
>>> ships sailing through until 1857).
>>>
>>
>>$ set response/mode=good_natured
>>
>>Us crazy Europeans and the fact we refuse to restrict ourselves to
>>using good old 7-bit US ASCII. :-)
>
> "Us"?  Aren't you in the UK?  :-D :-D :-D
>

Not everyone in the UK denies geography and shared cultural values. :-(

> (Too soon?)
>
> I've always found this criticism of ASCII kind of weird.  Of
> course it's US-centric; it was designed in the US.  The "A"
> stands for "American", after all.
>

I guess I was being a bit too subtle. :-)

It was not a comment against the US ASCII character set, but a comment
about how too many Americans expect everyone else in the world to adapt
to them (and to their limited understanding of the rest of the world).

"Why don't they just speak English ?"
    -- Clueless political person talking about alien contact, Contact (1997)

A fictional comment that seems to reflect reality, especially these days.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.