On Jun 8, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Robert Abel wrote: > So I don't think that we _could do without_ those characters having different > code points today. Even back then it must have seemed like a hack to type a > lowercase L instead of a 1.
It did, young feller, it did, by cracky! And, as a matter of fact, electric typewriters had a slightly different keyboard, one including proper 1, 0, and ! keys. -- John W Kennedy "The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has become full of /Pooh./" -- Frederick Crews. "Postmodern Pooh", Preface
