XPost: comp.lang.java.programmer   
   From: noone@lewscanon.com   
      
   Tom Anderson wrote:   
   >> Silly question, but those ?s were unicode characters before you pasted   
   >> this into usenet, right?   
   > [ SNIP ]   
      
   Arved Sandstrom wrote:   
   > FWIW, Tom, I saw his original characters OK when I read his post...just   
   > a bunch of unlauts [sic] that he'd need when he reads and writes in his   
   > heathen language... :-)   
   ...   
   > * I'm one to talk - if I read and write in my mother tongue I need äöüõ.   
      
   Even to write in my heathen mother tongue, American English, in which the use   
   of foreign "loan" words is hardly taboo, if one writes with éclat, casting   
   one's words into the æther for all to read, hoping to make a difference in the   
   noösphere, or perhaps just to explain to one's classmate Ramòn how to expand   
   all the digits of π, one might need to incorporate a soupçon of non-ASCII   
   characters.   
      
   --   
   Lew   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere   
      
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