Re: so help me who?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 16:42:07 MST


Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> writes:

> Amara Graps wrote:
>
> > Godel Escher Bach, dammit! picky picky. {8^D spike
> > ^
> > Goedel. You dropped the o-umlaut. [even pickier :-) ]
> >
> > Amara
>
> Hey how do they do that cool o-umlaut? Ive seen some
> tricky cats do that and even have it work over email, but
> Im pathetically ignorant of the control characters. Whats
> the keystroke?

Oh, I just press the 'ö' key on my keyboard :-)

Ah, the wonders of having a national keyboard - in the early 80's
there was a complete confusion since the standard replaced '{', '|'
and '}' with our characters, making computer code somewhat odd to say
the least.

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