>--[Craig Dickson]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> > That leaves the question how to pronounce "DEHB", "ee", "un", "deeb" and "e". > DEHB-ee-un would presumably rhyme with "day bay soon", right? (Just > kidding.) > Hopefully that is reasonably clear and unambiguous to anyone whose > English is good enough to cope with most of the messages on this list. Yes, I suppose I understood. However, my point was the implicit arrogance in assuming that a nebulous description of "sounds like" is understood by non-native English speakers, when there is a well-defined way of describing it precisely. > > Guess what we have an international agreed upon phonetical alphabet for. > Perhaps I'm misremembering, but the "internationally agreed-upon > phonetic alphabet" isn't perfectly expressible in 7-bit ASCII, is it? No, why should it? My name isn't perfectly expressible in US-ASCII as well, nonetheless your response contained it uncrippled. If even HTML mails are accepted on this list (unfortunately :-((((, my biggest non-spam HTML mail source), then utf-8 shouldn't be a problem (even less so iso-8859-1). [1] > <sarcasm> Besides, in accordance with current American foreign policy, I > pay no attention to all these "international agreements" that foreigners > try to impose on me. </sarcasm> And why should you restrict others by doing it the so-called "American" way...? Looks like you understood my point... *g* >--[Nori Heikkinen]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 02:06:04PM -0800, Craig Dickson insinuated: > > Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > > Guess what we have an international agreed upon phonetical > > > alphabet for. > > Perhaps I'm misremembering, but the "internationally agreed-upon > > phonetic alphabet" isn't perfectly expressible in 7-bit ASCII, is > > it? > nope, but that's why we have TeX & tipa. woo-hoo LaTeX! the biggest > time-sink i know ... :) No, that's what we have utf-8 and MIME for. >--[Nori Heikkinen]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.maenad.net/debian/debian.jpg ? ['dεb.i.jɪn] ['dεb.i.jĄn] The question remains why it isn't on the Debian web page, then... Yours, Rüdiger. [1] I know some trolls ignore people that don't use US-ASCII. -- 100 DM sind 51 � 13 �. 100 � sind 195 DM 58 pf. mailto:ruediger@;ruediger-kuhlmann.de http://www.ruediger-kuhlmann.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
