No, OM is OM in Finnish also. The trouble is with character conversion, ie.
the 7-bit bracket parenthesis around OM get somewhere translated into 8-bit
Scandinavian letters. On my screen the brackets are represented by A(umlaut)
and A(circle).
We, and other countries with local character sets have to cope with 7-bit
ASCII, 8-bit OEM (DOS) and 8-bit ANSI (Windows) character sets, all with
different places for the Scandinavian letters. Translations are bound to go
wrong at times. UNICODE might eventually solve this problem but until in
wide use it'll be just another base for character-conversion errors.
Mica Nyholm <mica.nyholm@xxxxxxxxx>
Valtionpalvelut, Tieto, Espoo
puh. (09) 457 3332
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> From: Gary Schloss[SMTP:schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Reply To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 1:06 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] OT ÄOMÅ
>
> Giles Stewart wrote
>
> >Actually, there were 4 subscribers from Finaland with '.fi' as part of
> >their URL as of just before Xmas.
> >
> >> > maybe [Nyholm Mica is] the first Finnish subscriber to this list.
>
> Pardon my lack of knowledge of the Finnish language, but is "ÄOMÅ"
> (that's {Alt u A} OM {Alt A}, or ASCII: 128 79 77 129) the way OM is
> spelled in FInnish, and if so, how is this pronounced phonetically?
> Inquiring minds want to know...
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> /Gary Schloss.
> Studio City, CA
> schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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