comp.lang.python in English? (was Re: Why Python is like BASIC)

[Magnus Lyckå]

aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote in message news:<a4racj$bm2$1 at panix2.panix.com>...

> (The above sarcasm directed at the glass house of someone who uses
> something other than ASCII as the $NAME.)

Well, that might be because ASCII can't be used to fully
express his name. English, on the other hand, can probably
be used to express the messages people really want to convey
in their posts.

I have one of those names as well. My options include stating
a false name which foreigners will pronounce as badly as my
proper name, but which will make Scandinavians think my name
is different than it really is, or to write my proper name
and either get strange MIME thingies in mail headers which
will confuse some people and break some software, or just send
8 bit ANSI / ISO8859-1 and break other pieces of software, but
display correctly for most people. Or should I attach a gif?

(Actually, a few posts (I won't mention any names since I've
suppressed them) are written in such a poor English that one
would prefer that they were written in a language one didn't
understand at all. But that was probably some other mailing
list...)

/Magnus Lyckå or Magnus Lyck\aa or whatever... (I should
probably write Lucko to make English speaking people get a bit
closer to the correct pronounciation, but no, they'd pronounce
it Lacko then. I think I'd need to attach a wav...)