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 á, é, í, ó, ú, ü,
ñ, ¿, ¡) 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,

Gil

 

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