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Martijn Grooten wrote:
But Italian does use an accent in words like pietà. Not as many as French of course. (I used the compose key that I have set up on my distro, Mint 10 KDE, to get the accent on that last letter.)On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote:The down-side is that not everyone can display them. E = MC² Ek = ½mv² and so on. These might not “look right” to some people though.Isn't this usually a problem with your settings? I rarely see this these days - and when I do, it tends to be because I'm playing with something and forget to set the character set used in the document.Ah well. Come back 7-bit ASCII, all is forgiven! (apart from £ and € which we sort of need now)Yes and kick those using other alphabets, or lots of accents (which means just about any language but English and, possibly, Italian) off the net. ;) Martijn.
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