Subj : A Brand New Look!
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Jun 02 2018 11:28:09

Hallo Richard!

 RM> Why does he think it is a good idea to post poems in a language
 RM> that most participants do not understand in this echo?

It has to do with the 0xc4 character which in latin1 is the Ä character.  This 
particular character doesn't exist in English so Swedish proverbs starting with 
Ä were chosen instead and a queue of them was generated for Little Mikey to 
post every time Digital Distortions posted it's ascii art, which really wasn't 
ascii art given the non-ascii character 0xc4 which is an 8 bit character 
instead of 7 bit which all ascii characters are.  However Digital Distortions 
quit posting before the queue was emptied so it got deleted.  Also Little Mikey 
isn't a 'he' it is an 'it' instead.  As far as I know computers don't have 
genders.

 RM> I am genuinely wondering.

So am I about what the fsck LATIN-1 really is.  You seem to have genuinely 
dodged that question.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

.... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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