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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by esafak on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:31PM (#38157335)
Without making assumptions about the origin of the name, you can't impute any structure onto that string, can you? In that case, it is still simply a string.
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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by cratermoon on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:08PM (#38212064)
> making assumptions

We have i18n to give context, no assumptions needed.

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