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My odd question: How do you set up the OS to be consistent?
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2010, 04:39:42 PM »
sokukodo - Thank you for the significant information; I'm awaiting my enlightenment "slowly!"   :sitting & thinking, oh I'm not supposed to think!  smile.gif  :

XABD - Exactly, because the mechanism is intrinsic to the OS it is no longer perceivable as a separate mechanism but only as the OS itself.  If you have programmed from the 1970's (as I have) this you could believe!  "Monolingual" was indeed the software that I used as a matter of course; I doubt it can be undone!
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My odd question: How do you set up the OS to be consistent?
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2010, 09:07:50 PM »
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I doubt it can be undone!
It could be done with just the OS Installer disk. Just use a "Custom" install and select the Languages section.

Lots of things that had to be done in the "70's" are rolled into the OS, literally thousands of mechanisms that earlier days required additional 'libraries' or new code. Bt removing stuff now has the same effect as back then. The stuff is missing, other stuff may not work or the machine won't even boot. I think even the developer of Monoliqual suggests that removing some language support may limit your use of the computer. dntknw.gif
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« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2010, 05:29:26 PM »
I naturally thought of this thread when I read the rather <long article linked here>. Despite it being long, even technical, at some points, I dare you to read it and not laugh out loud! rofl.gif OK, but at least you'll have a big grin, smile.gif occasionally... rolleyes.gif Tis is one of the funniest and easy to read explanations of why you get "?" instead of the character the writer wanted you to see in an email or a web page. thumbup.gif
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« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2010, 08:20:41 PM »
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You probably think I'm going to talk about very old character sets like EBCDIC here. Well, I won't.
EBCDIC is not relevant to your life. We don't have to go that far back in time.

Oh, man I sure wish that I could remember the old and funny poem that involved EBCDIC!  It wasn't
even off-color or anything it was just funny!  Well, maybe it was only funny to people who used to program
IBM mainframe computers! wink.gif
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« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2010, 08:28:34 PM »
Just below that was where my first grin came:
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Codes below 32 were called unprintable and were used for cussing.
laughhard.gif What that means, of course, is that you can use ASCII codes below 32 here at TS! nono.gif scram.gif
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