Re: what I learned from today's discussion of delimiters

Clearly the answer is to use ø as delimiter, and throw a bone to the poor Danes!

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On 28 Jan 2022, 8:36 AM +0000, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, wrote:
> What's that saying? Please some of the people all of the time....
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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 15:24, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
> <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com> wrote:
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> > In any case, convenience of typing and being in ASCII are not really the
> > same. They may be roughly the same on U.S. and for the most part on
> > U.K. keyboards, but my recollection is that getting some ASCII
> > characters -- in particular < and > -- was much more complicated on
> > Norwegian keyboards than I had ever imagined. (Well, not *that*
> > complicated, but I believe it involved both the Alt-Gr key and the shift
> > key as well as a third key.) In Norway, discussions about raw XML or
> > HTML being easy to type always rang a little hollow.
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> Seems Steven has hit that barrier already? {} pair are in the same category
> in Norway (source Lars).
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> <> You used Alt Gr + shift + plus one of the two keys on the right of
> ‘M’ on the keyboard. It was a bit awkward.
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> Same for {}, which programmers need.
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> The thing is Norwegian has to give three keys over to æøå, which
> leaves less room for these symbols.
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> So trying to be globally polite seems a hiding to nothing.
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> regards
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> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> Docbook FAQ.
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