> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Joe Barrera wrote:
> > > > Touch!
> > > Excuse me. What I and my stupid email program were trying to say was,
> > > "Touche'".
> > Oh, don't get touchy about it.
> > After a few hundred years of Microsoft dominance, the French will drop
> > all those accents, and the space that would otherwise be wasted on
> > unicode can be used more productively on .BMP instead.
>
> Loyd, you still bitter about france??
These days it's Belgium.
I missed TimBL's talk at the IEE and his picking up a Lloyd prize
because I was stuck on the Eurostar to Brussels that evening, for a
meeting at very short notice.
http://www.iee.org.uk/Events/a26mar98.htm
http://forum.iee.org.uk/forum/confer/items/19980326/bernersl.htm
has a 36-minute RealAudio recording of his speech. Login required.
L.
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