Re: doc/Etiquette

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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Tomas Edwardsson wrote:
> I believe the following is no longer true?
> 
> 4) {}|[]\
> 
>    IRC has quite a lot of people from Scandinavian countries,
> the above characters are letters in their alphabet. This 
> has been explained on IRC about a thousand and one times, so
> read the following, do not ask it on IRC:
> 
>    {     is an A with 2 dots over it
>    }     is an A with a small circle above it
>    |     is either an O with 2 dots over it or an O with a dash (/)
> through it
>    [, ], and \ are the preceding three letters in upper case.
> 
>    There are a lot of people from Japan as well, who use Kanji characters
> which may look quite exotic as well. As I don't know Kanji I don't
> even try to explain any of the characters.

until yet it is true. and for backward-compatibility i hope this stays
true.

Rico "mc" Gloeckner
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