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Skriven 2013-11-25 12:37:02 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
   Kommentar till text 6629 av Alexey Vissarionov (2:5020/545)
Ärende: language
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Hello Alexey,

On Sunday November 24 2013 17:17, you wrote to Björn Felten:

 AV>>> Please write in English,

 BF>> Naïve *is* English.

 AV> Ask native speakers...

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/naive

 AV>>> without any characters from the 0x80...0xFF range.

 BF>> Why?

Why indeed...

 AV> The working language of this echoarea is English,

Yes. But that does not mean that only English names are allowed. If we would
allow only English names, we would have to ban Janis Kracht en Joe Delahaye.
"Kracht" is Dutch and translates to "Force" in English. "Delahaye" is French
and translates to "Fromthehague". So they would have to write as "Janis Force"
and "Joe Fromthehague". Of course we don't ask them to do that. Just as we do
not ask you to change your name to "Alex".

 AV> and all 26 capital and 26 small letters of English alphabet reside in
 AV> the 0x40...0x7F range.

The English alphabet is larger than that. Björn already pointed out the
currency sign for the Pound Sterling: £. x9C in CP850, xA3 in Latin 1 and
codepoint U+00A3 in Unicode.

Characters with a diaresis ARE used in English."Naïve" was already mentioned.
It is often written as "naive" in US English, but that does not mean the
version with the i with diaresis is incorrect.

English also allows the diaresis in names. Noël Coward was already mentioned.
I add Emily Brontë.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB

And for the o diareses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%C6tes

Sidenote: All those pages on wikipedia are encoded in UTF-8



Cheers, Michiel

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