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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.