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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: 5 Jun 2014 15:32:31 GMT
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On 2014-06-05, Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>
>> Unicode support is mostly irrelevant for the vast majority of Usenet
>> users who spend their time in English language only groups where 99.99%
>> of posts are easily expressed in only ASCII.
>
> For American Usenet users, possibly, as American's seem to disdain 
> accented characters (even in names like San José).

Disdain? Nah, I mostly just ignore them. Better things to do. : )

> For the rest of us who use words like résumé, café, Ångström, première, 
> etc. it is not irrelevant.

Meh. It's a nice-to-have for me. Nothing more.

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JR