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From: "Poster" <NOSPAM@POSTER.net>
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Subject: Re: Some small ASCII Icons
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:59:12 +0400
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Hahahahahahahah CLOSE...but no cigar

AR -> Arabic           ' Arabic Font
FA -> Farsi            ' Persian
SA -> Sanskrit         ' Devanagri Script/Indian Language.
                         Root of many Indian languages like Latin/Greek is
for English
UR -> Urdu             ' Arabic Script
TA -> Tamil            ' Tamil (Dravidian Script) Indian Language
SW -> Swahili          '
IN -> Indonesian       ' Thai
KN -> Konkani          ' Devanagri Script / Indian Language
MS -> Malay (Malaysia) '
MA -> Marathi          ' Devanagri Script / Indian Language

Nice try
?:)

"drsquare" <nowhere@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
news:q25fvtkla7s6shp3keuv9pnqdg125q27ie@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:53:47 +0400, in alt.ascii-art,
>  ("Poster" <NOSPAM@POSTER.net>) wrote:
>
> >Try deciphering these
> >Bet many here have not even heard of these languages...
> >
> >AR
>
>  Arabic
>
> >FA
>
>  No idea
>
> >SA
>
>  South African
>
> >UR
>
>  Ukrainian
>
> >TA
>
>  Taiwanese
>
> >SW
>
>  Swahili
>
> >IN
>
>  Indonesian
>
> >KN
>
>  Kenyan
>
> >MS
>
>  Malaysian
>
> >MA
>
> Marshall Islands
>
> >"Peter Punk" <ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl> wrote in message
> >news:v37evtk5bkpsqq5ltnp24r2o1a7eeonnpo@4ax.com...
> >> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:43:53 +0100, Philip Newton
> >> <pne-news-20011117@newton.digitalspace.net> provoked the following
text:
> >>
> >> >> > >> >+--+
> >> >> > >> >|EN|   Keyboard Langauge Indicator
> >> >> > >> >+--+
> >> >> > >> +--+
> >> >> > >> |DE|   Keyboard Langauge Indicator
> >> >> > >> +--+
> >> >> > >  +--+
> >> >> > >  |DA|   Keyboard Langauge Indicator
> >> >> > >  +--+
> >> >> Sorry, you're all wrong. Its:
> >> >>
> >> >> +--+
> >> >> |GB|  Keyborad Language Indicator
> >> >> +--+
> >> >
> >> >GB? What language is that? It's certainly not one of the ISO 639
> >> >language codes.
> >>
> >> Ermmm... Brittish English (as in US English)).
> >>
> >> >(It might be a country code according to ISO 3166, but using that for
> >> >languages doesn't make sense. For example, what language would 'CH'
be?
> >>
> >> I think that would be Swiss.
> >>
> >> >or 'BE'?
> >>
> >> Belgian.
> >>
> >> >Or even 'CA'?)
> >>
> >> Californian. :-)
> >> --
> >>         Peter Punk
> >>           \    /
> >>         ---\\\\---
> >>           /    \
> >>
> >> Castrate my email adress to reply.
> >>
> >> "355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible
> >simulation!"
> >
>