[Info-vax] Anything of interest from the Bootcamp ?

[Chris Townley]

On 26/10/2024 00:03, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/25/2024 6:37 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 25/10/2024 23:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:29:09 -0400, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>>> There will be a boot camp in Malmo ...
>>>
>>> Isn’t that Malmö?
>>
>> What the F*k is that about?
> 
> He is referring to the fact that the city's name in
> all languages except Danish is Malmö (in Danish it is
> Malmø).
> 
> ö = \u00F6
> ø = \u00F8
> 
> I suspect that Robert neither know these letters nor has a keyboard
> setup to enter them.
> 
> So he just used Malmo.
> 
> The official translation to English alphabet of both ö and ø is oe,
> but few outside Scandinavia knows that - heck even many in Scandinavia
> doesn't know that.
> 
> And it gets really funny when a 8 to 7 bit conversion strip the
> high bit so ö -> v and ø -> x.
> 
> Arne
> 

I was aware of some of that, but it is typical troll behaviour - nitpicking.

Most of us are getting fed up with him (as are many usenet groups) but 
you just play to him. Don't feed him!

-- 
Chris