Re: Using character entities in us-ascii

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Leif K-Brooks wrote:

If Unicode's first 128
characters were different from ASCII's (they aren't), [...]

¿Qué?
"If Christopher Columbus were shot in 1491 (he wasn't) ..."

I don't see any use for your speculation.

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Andreas Prilop wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Leif K-Brooks wrote:

If Unicode's first 128
characters were different from ASCII's (they aren't), [...]


¿Qué?
"If Christopher Columbus were shot in 1491 (he wasn't) ..."

I don't see any use for your speculation.

"If Christopher Columbus were shot in 1491 (he wasn't), America would
probably still have been discovered. Pure random chance suggests that
anything which is possible will happen eventually, although it may take
a while." It's an example.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Leif K-Brooks wrote:

"If Christopher Columbus were shot in 1491 (he wasn't), America would
probably still have been discovered.

Or as someone perceptively commented:

"The Viking's greatest gift to humanity was that they discovered
America first, *and didn't tell anybody about it*".

SCNR.