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Juha, I'll start be saying that I'm a pedant and can't stop myself from making annoying comments. OK? Annoying comment number 1: In various places on the DC5 Web page and registration form there are strange sequences of digits and punctuation characters. At first I thought that these may be astrological symbols whose purpose is to bring good fortune to the Workshop. Then I looked around this hotel in San Jose (where I've come for the Unicode Conference), saw the SF fans gathered here for a Science Fiction Convention and decided that these strings of characters may be inscriptions in Klingon, possibly translations of certain key phrases for the sake of Klingon attendees at DC5. If I have misunderstood and the strange character sequences are intended to convey some meaning to us Earthlings, please could I request that you translate them into some form even I will understand. For example, if they are meant to represent dates, then something like "6.-8.10.1997" could be replaced, fairly painlessly, by "6-8 October 1997" [no, I'm not suggesting you use ISO 8601!]. If this annoying comment makes you want to bite my head off, please let me say that I have made equally annoying comments to US Web site authors on seeing their strange notation. Annoying comment number 2: It might be better if the apple core linked directly to the main DC Web site and there was a separate link to the Nordic DC Web site. Annoying comment number 3: Please fix Carl's URLs. The script does strange things with URLs which don't start with "http://". I noticed this when registering for DC4. Thank you for reading this far, Misha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Misha Wolf Email: [log in to unmask] 85 Fleet Street Standards Manager Voice: +44 171 542 6722 London EC4P 4AJ Reuters Limited Fax : +44 171 542 8314 UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eleventh International Unicode Conference, Sep 2-5 1997, www.unicode.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.