Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 22:47:52 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-Day tomorrow! Message-ID: <2326.905287672@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Sep 1998 22:23:49 %2B0200." <xzplnnus696.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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In message <xzplnnus696.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: >> ...And if it's every rolled in, I insist that it be called... >> >> "non-spacing Umlaat day" > >Why "Umlaut"? Why does everybody have to call that ¨ an umlaut? Why >does the HTML entity for ï have to be ï? Why use a German word >when there's a perfectly good English word for the bloody double-dot: >DIARESIS for chrissake! That is very simple, since the germans are one of the worlds greatest producers and consumers of the bloddy things, the boxes they come in of course are labeled in German :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal
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