[thelist] As an infrequent poster

[Oliver Lineham]

At 00:44 10/07/00 -0500, you wrote:

>This seems awfully English-centric.  What about all the "extended
>characters" for the umlaut-u, ess-tset, etc.?

ASCII is very american centric.  ASCII stands for .. American Standard Code 
for Information Interchange.  Other ASCII-like standards are inconsistent.

>Just wondering.  When you say character references what exactly are you
>saying?

Entity references, such as &uuml for umlaut-u.

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