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Re: Printing like palindrome

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From Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Printing like palindrome
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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
>> On 09/05/17 20:33, Keith Thompson wrote:
> [...]
>>> You might also think about non-Latin letters.
>>
>> You might, but the spec clearly said English letters, so why look
>> further afield?
>
> Sure, but there's no harm in thinking about them, even if the result
> of that thought is that you don't have to do anything about them.
>
> And specs can change.

In this case, they'd have to
    'List the letters of the alphabet from "a" to "ë"'
is not well defined.

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Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-09 10:59 +0000
  Re: Printing like palindrome Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-05-09 04:26 -0700
    Re: Printing like palindrome Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-09 14:10 -0500
      Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 12:33 -0700
        Re: Printing like palindrome Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-09 23:05 +0100
          Re: Printing like palindrome raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-05-10 10:25 +0000
            Re: Printing like palindrome Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 11:44 +0100
          Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-10 09:48 -0700
            Re: Printing like palindrome Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 18:59 +0100
        Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-12 07:14 +0000
      Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-12 07:44 +0000
    Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-12 07:20 +0000
      Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-12 08:49 -0700
        Re: Printing like palindrome arnuld <sunrise@invalid.address> - 2017-05-14 02:01 +0000
  Re: Printing like palindrome mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-05-09 07:13 -0700
    Re: Printing like palindrome scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-09 14:59 +0000
      Re: Printing like palindrome Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 08:27 -0700
      Re: Printing like palindrome Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-05-09 10:40 -0700
  Re: Printing like palindrome scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-09 14:38 +0000
    Re: Printing like palindrome Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-09 22:48 +0100
      Re: Printing like palindrome scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-10 13:21 +0000
        Re: Printing like palindrome Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-10 15:45 +0100
        Re: Printing like palindrome Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-05-10 10:26 -0700
  Re: Printing like palindrome bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-09 21:28 +0100
    Re: Printing like palindrome raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-05-10 10:27 +0000
    Re: Printing like palindrome Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 10:39 -0700
  Re: Printing like palindrome bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-10 12:54 +0100
  Printing like palindrome asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2017-05-12 02:32 -0700

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