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Date:      1 Jun 2000 23:23:54 +0200
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Punctuation conventions
Message-ID:  <8h6k9a$6ke$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>
References:  <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr>

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Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:

> Speaking as a non native english speaker, I must say that I learned in the
> FreeBSD mailing-lists that two spaces were required at the end of a
> sentence...

The block fill functions of some editors as well as fmt(1) give it
away, too.

> I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails.

I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French
habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'?

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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