On Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:14:02 -0500 Gilbert Brenson Lazan said: >Good morning: > >I am a rank newbie owner of a Spanish-language list (FACESP-L out of >[log in to unmask]) who spends half his life lately with one hand >on the keyboard and the other on the Listserv manual. I cannot find the >answer to this problem, however. > >There has been a fair-sized conflict on the list lately between the >Spanish-language purists that see my insistence upon the elimination of the >use of non-ASCII symbols (accents and puntuation such as =E1, =E9, =ED, =F3,= > =FA, =FC, >=F1, =BF, =A1) as a subversive attempt at cultural hegemony. I maintain= > that it >is a pragmatic concession to those that can't read those symbols and get a >mess of other stuff instead of the accented letter. > >My question is where is the problem? Does it lay in the e-mail software >(as some insist) or in the keyboard programming (as others insist) or in >the server capabilities (as I have been led to believe). > >Thanks for any light you can shed on this and thanks a million for all the >help I have received through this list. > >Best wishes, Given that Albany is still on VM, the following might be of some use to the Albany Listmaster. Obviously I'm no guru at this. ;-) >09/25/96: Wednesday > Used a procedure researched by Listowner Nicholas Graner of France > to supposedly make us fluent in 8-bit ASCII. I used the command: > "convxlat french standard" after auditing the various tables available. > After restarting Listserv we lost about 105 postings due to it messing > up the addresses in its B64 distribution files. I don't see why, but > I backed out the change, restarted and apologized to the victims. > >09/30/96: Monday > Used "CONVXLAT CANADIAN STANDARD" under TCPMAINT to install an 8-bit > ascii translation table from Jean Bedard, [log in to unmask] This > was provided via Nicholas Graner >