(keitai-l) Re: SHIFT-JIS and non-Japanese content

From: Benjamin Kowarsch <benjk_at_mac.com>
Date: 11/20/01
Message-Id: <19854131-DD71-11D5-9443-003065501888@mac.com>
> CU l8r!
>
> Yes. This is German SMS talk ;)

Still too long. Should be "Cya" or "wbl8" ;-)

Tell us, do they also have adopted or invented a shorter word for 
wristband-clock yet ?

Imagine, the Germans had invented Unix ...

ls would be something like MultipleKolumnListOf:AlleFiles, perhaps with 
a predefined alias "MKLOAF"

Come to think of it, must have been a German engineer who designed DCL 
at DEC ...

show files /all /columns=4

Imagine the new Siemens phone ...

show telephonenumbers /all /countrycode=44 /match="George"

while the Motorola would do the same with ...

gimme UK george

and the Japanese vendors would use a context sensitive parser ...

?geor

;-)

rgds
benjamin


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Received on Tue Nov 20 06:47:56 2001