On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> He probably did, but I set my xterm to display iso8859-1 (a.k.a.
> Latin-1, a.k.a. Westerm European) charset. So, instead of
> capital C with hacek (C\*v troff -ms notation) I got capital E
> with grave accent (E\*` troff -ms notation). And I'm pretty sure
> most of the people on the mailing list (well, at least those who
> have a UNIX box on their desktop), including Philip, saw exactly
> the same character.
Yup, I saw the E.
> > My personal view is that the 127-character restriction is ludicrious in
> > this day and age.
>
> Unfortunately, even if this restriction is removed, several
> problems will still remain.
Oh, absolutely. I entirely agree. It just gets *one* problem out of the
way.
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