Re: regex of the month (decade?)

On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:01 AM, David Landgren wrote:

> The benchmark may be flawed, since my appreciation of Unicode is  
> little more than "things went downhill after 7-bit ASCII".

Haven't I read that you live in Paris?  I figured that anyone who  
lives in a country whose dominant language was not fully expressible  
in ASCII would love Unicode.

On a major tangent, have others noticed the resurgence of the umlaut  
in printed English?  I keep seeing things like coöperation or  
coördinates -- particularly in Technology Review, but in other  
publications on occasion too.  Is that because it's *supposed* to be  
spelled that way, but ASCII and the typewriter have suppressed that  
spelling for my lifetime?

Chris