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#10538 12/05/00 01:10 PM
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I realized* last night in bed that I had been doing CTRL-0198 and not Æ.

*I see that Ænigma has a US English spelling bias; it didn't like realise. Hmm, lessee, sulphur sulfur both OK aluminum aluminium. ¡Lo and/or behold! For aluminium it suggests aluminum.


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Aah, Homer - a true prophet of the modern age - just as his namesake was millennia ago. A quick search of the archives would reveal dozens of such moments on my part, I assure you.


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[rant]I am ever so slightly annoyed that one presumes all users here are Gates clones. I for one am a cave-dwelling Mac renegade, and my Æ is not the result of any Alt + a random assortment of numbers. [/rant]
Not that anyone asked


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[rant]I am ever so slightly annoyed that one presumes all users here are Gates clones. I for one am a cave-dwelling Mac renegade, and my Æ is not the result of any Alt + a random assortment of numbers. [/rant]
Not that anyone asked


[petulant retort]
Sorry, Anna. Your post reminded me of a scene from Weird Al Yankovich's movie "The Vidiot from UHF." There were a collection of movie previews in it, and one was for the movie "Gandhi II - He's back, and this time he ain't taking any crap."
In that Mohandesque spirit, I am leaping to my own defence, with a quote from my earlier post on the subject of accented characters:
. For those Windows users who use only a few accented characters, here are some of the more common - hold down the Alt key while pressing the numbers on the numeric keypad.

[/petulant retort]


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I am ever so slightly annoyed that one presumes all users here are Gates clones.


And I, AnnaS, am a PC Philistine who still hasn't figured out how you MacFolk right click. I did not know that there was another way of doing it.


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