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Re: character strings versus byte strings

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To: bear <bear@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: character strings versus byte strings
From: tb@xxxxxxxxxx (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 22 Dec 2003 19:30:42 -0800
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bear <bear@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> ...but I'm
> sorely tempted to simply declare all use of eszett, given its
> unique status in the history of human writing, to be an error.

What happened to the days when computer programmers saw difficult
problems as interesting challenges, instead of as things to define
away?

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