Subj : UTF-8 nodelist report
To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Wed Mar 12 2025 06:48 pm
Hey Michiel!
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:42:34 +0100, you wrote:
> I was hoping it would all be hand written. ;-)
What, like hand written with a quill or something? Jeez, I'm not _that_ old!
> Dutch typewriters had some "dead keys" for the accents. They printed he
> symbol but the carriage remained in the same place, so it combined with
> the following letter. That is of course where de "dead key" method in my
> Dutch keyboard driver comes from.
So with a typewriter, you would hit a two-key combination typing the accent/umlaut/etc and then the letter in the same place? That's pretty neat.
> In the very beginning of the computer age here it was A-Z only just like
> in the US. But that quickly changed, Outside the US the demand for more
> than just A-Z was too great to ignore. And Microsoft went along...
I would imagine. Just about everywhere outside of the US uses special characters of some sort. MS went along because they *had* to go along, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to continue their quest of world domination.
> I expect you will not run into serious problems setting it up on your
> end. We will see how it works out. Getting (part of) Z1 to paticipate in
> the UTF nodelist project would be nice. :-)
I shouldn't have any issues setting it up. I've been using the 'allow8bit' keyword in my othernet since it was added to makenl. I'll just have to figure out what to do with it after it is created. ;)
Regards,
Nick
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