Paul Eggert [off-list ref] writes:
Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:
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I don't know if you realize it, but it's only within the last couple of
years that the old 7-bit "finnish ASCII" went away.
Aach! Those Finns! Always on the trailing edge of technology!
Nah, Japanese are much worse. We are so used to see Yen signs
at the end of multi-line CPP macro definitions (backslashes are
taken over by it) and I do not foresee it going away anytime
soon. I think windows people believe Yen signs are path
component separators ;-).