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

[bill]

On 10/25/2024 7:35 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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!
> 

Or just ignore him.

bill