Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1DJQTH27969 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:29 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1DJQSd02611 . for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:28 +0100 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1DJQSM18180 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:28 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C095F2.DD12E080" Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA29993 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1DJQR702012 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:27 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.B0588B28@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:20 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488915 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:24 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08943 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA53790 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:23 +0100 Received: from venus.open.ac.uk (venus.open.ac.uk [137.108.143.2]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1DJQIg04186 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from fell.open.ac.uk by venus.open.ac.uk via SMTP Local (Mailer 3.1) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:26:10 +0000 Received: (from car2@localhost) by fell.open.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id TAA20082; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:26:26 GMT In-Reply-To: <200102131802.SAA05996@penguin.nag.co.uk> References: <200102131655.QAA05656@penguin.nag.co.uk> <14985.26842.924139.782089@fell.open.ac.uk> <200102131802.SAA05996@penguin.nag.co.uk> Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under Emacs 20.7.1 X-Authentication-Warning: fell.open.ac.uk: car2 set sender to car2@fell.open.ac.uk using -f Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:26:24 +0100 Message-ID: <14985.35424.947585.191055@fell.open.ac.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Chris Rowley" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3892 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C095F2.DD12E080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David > > Now where have I heard that phrase before? > > about the time character sets were extended to 7 bits to allow > the luxury of both upper and lower case. That could never have happened: the paper tape was not wide enough! I suppose you are going to tell me that I am wrinkly enough to have lived through those troubling times. Would that be pre or post-Beatles? chris > _____________________________________________________________________ > This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet = delivered > through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information = visit > http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp > Do we allow advertising on this list? ------_=_NextPart_001_01C095F2.DD12E080 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary

David

> > Now where have I heard that phrase = before?
>
> about the time character sets were extended to 7 = bits to allow
> the luxury of both upper and lower case.

That could never have happened: the paper tape was not = wide enough!

I suppose you are going to tell me that I am wrinkly = enough to have
lived through those troubling times.

Would that be pre or post-Beatles?


chris

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