Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi Date: 8 Dec 2025 01:46:27 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <10h3nqp$3d46i$1@dont-email.me> <10h4l65$1tv5$1@gal.iecc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5wDVXtSZ+s9E1su0x3sV3QRWhURHkQ5T9ugVjyUrnZ9km50Gio Cancel-Lock: sha1:jDHOM5cVhkScAxMmHGgo+A4Pzew= sha256:DaxDk0SMV11xf0ZZTbLut5viv022h+ieVa+46+GMmTk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78447 alt.folklore.computers:232435 On 7 Dec 2025 19:44:13 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote: > John Levine wrote or quoted: >>Well, that covers English and Hawaiian. All the others use accented >>charactrs outside the ASCII set. > > Well, English has > > naïve rôle > > . Some older books might also contain "coördinate". They're getting filtered out. In the graveyard where some of my people are buried the older markers had umlauts. The second generation had the oe or other diphthongs. The third generation went to a phonetic spelling of how their names were pronounced. In high school I was surprised when the gym teacher asked how I pronounced my name. Usually that was reserved for kids named Czechnokowski but he apparently had been burned before.