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Before I get to the huge review of "Charlie Curries a Favor from Todd", I figure I should have a post where I analyze Outsourced as a whole, particularly becasue the show has been cancelled. Will NBC listen to what I have to say and use my suggestions as valid input on what to do or not do in their next culture shock office sitcom? No. In fact, I'd be shocked to pieces if someone from NBC even knows I, and Moniqueblog, exist. But at least my opinions will be here for the record.
I'll tackle this in four parts, starting from the broadest to smallest of issues: 1) How the premise of the show was tackled, 2)How the characters were developed (with a subset on the sartorial choices the characters made, as the clothes also tell a bigger story-and perhaps one of the most egregious mistakes-of where the show veered the wrong way), 3)How relationships were handled, and 4) The character of Todd: how his characterization could've been saved mid-season. Let's jump in, shall we?
Part One: The premise of the show
The main cast of the show. Credit: NBC
I'll start the analysis by quoting the official synopsis of the show from NBC:
"Outsourced" is NBC's new workplace comedy series centered around a catalog-based company, Mid America Novelties, that sells American novelty goods including whoopee cushions, foam fingers and wallets made of bacon, and whose call center has suddenly been outsourced to India.
After recently completing Mid America Novelties' manager training program, Todd Dempsy (Ben Rappaport, off-Broadway's "The Gingerbread House") learns that the call center is being outsourced to India, and he is asked to move there to be the manager. Having never ventured out of the country, he is unprepared for the culture shock. Overwhelmed, Todd discovers that his new staff needs a crash course in all things American if they are to understand the U.S. product line and ramp up sales from halfway around the world.
The sales team Todd inherits includes Gupta (Parvesh Cheena, "Help Me Help You"), a socially awkward employee; Manmeet (Sacha Dhawan, BBC's "Five Days II"), a young romantic who is enamored with America; Asha (Rebecca Hazlewood, BBC's "Doctors"), a smart, striking woman who finds herself intrigued by Todd; Rajiv (Rizwan Manji, "Privileged") the assistant manager who wants Todd's job; and Madhuri (Anisha Nagarajan, Broadway's "Bombay Dreams"), a wallflower who suffers from extreme shyness.
Todd also discovers other transplants working in his office building, including an American expatriate, Charlie Davies (Diedrich Bader, "The Drew Carey Show"), who runs the All-American Hunter call center, and Tonya (Pippa Black, "Neighbours"), a beautiful Australian who runs the call center for Koala Air.
On paper, this show seems not only like a sure bet, but an easy task. How can a show about an American transplanted in India not be good? The culture clash alone would be entertaining. So it would seem.
However, just like how some conversations between Todd and his Indian workers might have become convoluted from a language barrier, something got lost in translation when the show went from the pitch phase to the pilot/filming phase. Several elements rubbed the majority of people (and critics) the wrong way:
- Todd and other Western characters had an air of entitlement, while the Indian characters were secondary in an Indian/American comedy; the Western characters were the foreigners needing to learn about Indian society, but the native Indians were treated as sidekicks, or worse, like children needing to be educated in the Western ways.
- India was treated as a backwater country, whereas America was held on a slightly higher pedestal. Possibly, this is because many of the writers might be more familiar with America, and also, it be a tone that's a carry-over from the film version of Outsourced. But still, it's highly insulting to a country that has the tenth largest economy by nominal gross domestic product (GDP), fourth largest economy by purchasing power parity, has become a newly industrialized country and is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, boasting such industries as automobiles, software, biotechnology, aeronautics, and other scientific areas, aside from their fast-growing IT and business process outsourcing fields.In Mumbai alone (the place where I believe the tv show Outsourced is set), there are fast-paced IT, engineering, healthcare and financial career fields. Mumbai is also the financial center of India due to being the location of both of the country's major stock exchanges. Mumbai is also the home of Bollywood, so acting opportunities are also big. Many major ad agencies are also located in Mumbai. Sure, India has a very large group of people who are unskilled and still faces the upward challenges of eliminating poverty, illiteracy, and less-than-favorable public health conditions, but India is not as backwards and out-of-touch with Western society as Outsourced makes it out to be.
- The humor of the show–particularly the pilot–was crude to both countries involved. The humor made Americans look like self-absorbed idiots and the Indians look like simple-minded country folk. Neither of which is true. The joke that Indians no nothing of Western culture is null and void in the first place–does India not have India's Got Talent, a show that is a spin-off of the original Britain's Got Talent? Do they not have Indian Idol, a version of (again) the original British show Pop Idol? (Keep in mind America also borrowed the models for those two shows for America's Got Talent and American Idol.) And what about the huge market they have for American television shows and films? The idea that the Indian characters in Outsourced have never seen an American movie is almost impossible to imagine. The reverse is also true for America. On the whole, we are intellectually and culturally-stimulated people, too–do we not have the Bollywood-esque Broadway show Bombay Dreams as well as a growing market for Bollywood films? And did we not have American made films like The Namesake? Each culture has their own set of jokes and idiosyncrasies, sure; not every expat knows everything to expect from a foreign culture. But that doesn't mean that two countries' popular cultures can't overlap at any point. And lets not pretend that America doesn't consume their fair share of Indian cuisine. For Todd not to have eaten an Indian dish or snack ever is almost preposterous in today's society. The same holds true for the Indian characters on the show; there are McDonald's restaurants in India.
These types of sight gags are supposed to remind us of the differences between India and America. Credit: world-trends-on.blogspot.com
There might be a few more issues in the pilot and the show as a whole, but these are the biggest ones I can think of. Am I holding the cast at fault? No. In all of the reviews I've done thus far, I haven't held the cast at any fault because they aren't the ones to be blamed. The main problems were created below the surface, during the show's initial planning and writing stages. Here's how the people behind the show could have fixed said issues, though:
- Make sure to eliminate any part of the Western characters that would give the characters that odious air of entitlement. One of way of fixing this, aside from doing through characterization of Todd and co., would be to have more Indian writers on staff. Out of the 17 writers hired to work on Outsourced, a very small number are actually Indian. I think hiring more Indian writers would have helped even out some of the script problems. Also, the writers needed to make sure they were well-versed enough in Indian culture to make jokes about it. I'm not saying some weren't well-versed, but if we're speaking in generalities, the whole writing unit should have had not only the standard show bible, but an Indian bible–a book put together by the producing staff and head writer(s) that outlined both major and little-known facts about Indian culture, a list of contacts on Indian culture for research, and various movies, television shows, food items, and other forms of pop-culture in India. Also, if it could've been worked in the budget, the entire team should have gone to India as a research trip, similar to how Disney would pay for its team of animators to go to faraway locales to sketch, sight-see, and do background research in order to bring the local flavor back to their animated films such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paris, France), Mulan (China), and The Lion King (Kenya, Africa), to name a few. Pixar and Dreamworks also did this for Ratatouille (France) and The Prince of Egypt (Egypt, Africa), respectively. Also, Dreamworks head Jeffery Katzenberg utilized the minds of the top biblical scholars, Arab-American leaders, and Christian, Muslim, and Jewish theologians in order to create the best possible (and least-offensive) movie, since the film, much like Outsourced, had the potential to alienate several cultures, ethnic groups, and religions.
- Understand India fully. I touched on this with the suggestion of an Indian bible already. This is where such a book would come in handy for writers, as would that trip. In order to write about a certain group of people and their country, you have to have immersed yourself in it for quite a long time. In order for the show to really be both hilarious and hard-hitting, the writers could have not only used the lighthearted parts of India, such as Holi, but also the dark parts, such as the high poverty rate, the illiteracy, and the health issues. Other parts of Indian society, such as the latent colorism, the residual caste society, and the argument over arranged marriages could have been talked about, or, in the case of the arranged marriage issue, talked about more often and in much greater detail. Perhaps the writers were saving some of their Indian knowledge for later seasons, but if the show was to be a success, they should have put some of their heavy guns in the first season. Similarly, the same type of treatment could have been done for America, particularly Kansas, where Todd is from. While the lighter side of America was always talked about on the show, the darker issues could have made its way into the show as well. Issues like racism and discrimination against people from the Middle East and India due to the fear of terrorism, the theatricality and "horse-race" quality of our political system, race relations issues, our own healthcare issues, fear-mongering, etc. If the show seriously dealt with both sides of both countries, Outsourced could have been a very well-written, possibly controversial, but very successful dark comedy. Also, placing the show in a more believable setting than a soundstage (or perhaps, just a more believable soundstage) could have helped immensely.
- With the above research suggestions completed, the humor would have come naturally. There's a bevy of things in both countries to choose from that would make compelling television. Such a rich bounty of harvestable material should have provided scores of ideas. And, coupled with the right amount of knowledge, the jokes could have had some substance other than something as simple as Jingle Jugs.
This could have been a prolific show; all of the components were there. Credit: NBC
Again, some of the tone of the show, might be from the film, but where the film stops, the tv show could have picked-up and become even better than the film. Clueless was a film, and the television show was, in many cases, much better and zanier than the film (which, if we're being honest, was already fantastic, except for the squicky stepbrother-loving part. I know they're not related, but it still grosses me out!) M.A.S.H. was a film, and whereas the film was a gritty take on life as a medical officer in Korea, M.A.S.H. the television show was serious, funny, tinged in Vietnam-era sensibilities (so much so that I thought it was about Vietnam) and engrossing that it became much more popular than the film ever was. Hogan's Heroes was based on Stalag 17, a classic Billy Wilder film based on a play about American soldiers in a German POW camp, but the show, also showing a more contemporary sensibility than its film counterpart (though not as much as M.A.S.H.), became much more popular than the film because of the humor involved.
In short, stuff could've been done to make the easy premise work and develop the show into a hard, scathing, slightly satirical, funny comedy, the comedy I think it was supposed to be, instead of the slightly-unfocused, soft-hitting show it turned out to be.
NEXT–An analysis of the characters (and their clothing choices!) Stay tuned…
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While working on her well-received 2012 album "Ekstasis," Los Angeles singer-composer Julia Holter crafted a song that was such a departure that she set it aside. The piece, "Maxim's II," was inspired by a famous scene in the 1958 movie musical "Gigi" and is one of the hubs of her striking new album, "Loud City Song."
In the film, as the titular heroine very publicly moves through the fancy Parisian restaurant Maxim's with her scandalous beau, the entire room takes note. "Everyone's staring at her and gossiping about her when she walks in," said Holter while sitting on a park bench near Levitt Pavilion Pasadena. "I don't know why, but I wanted to re-create this scene in a song."
Five-plus minutes of swirling brass, strings, piano and Holter's cool, Chet Baker-suggestive vocal, "Maxim's II" variously suggests an avant-garde classical piece or Phil Spector's famous wall of sound being imploded. Cymbals crash, tenor and alto saxophones battle and, near the end, Holter ties it all together with a chaotic crescendo. Movie musical material it's not. Rather, the piece is a monumental construct and unlike any song you'll hear all year.
The whole of "Loud City Song," which comes out Tuesday, is as assured, and it cements Holter as one of the most accomplished — and challenging — young musicians working in the city. Her first release for the respected British label Domino, "Loud City Song" features 10 pieces loosely based on themes explored in "Gigi."
"There's a social dynamic going on between the individual and the people watching — the voyeurs — and to me that was an interesting dynamic," she said. Behind her at the Pavilion, a crowd was gathering to witness Holter perform with experimental folk singer Linda Perhacs.
Whether she's aware of the connection or not, Holter is the center of a similar — though far less gossipy — gaze. An L.A.-born artist whose last album landed on many critics' best-of-the-year lists (including mine), her new album is her first with a production budget to equal her vision, and a growing collection of fans awaits its release.
The result is a confident — if at times atonal and obtuse — work, the creation of a 28-year-old artist whose recordings can be both head-scratchingly "difficult" while conveying a singular kind of beauty. In committing to Domino, she joins a roster that includes big names such as the Arctic Monkeys, Animal Collective and Hot Chip as well as more experimental kindred spirits such as Dan Deacon, Four Tet and Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale.
Her vision was given structure at the California Institute of the Arts, where Holter studied music composition and developed creative relationships among influential art collective Human Ear Music, whose members included musicians Ariel Pink, John Maus and Ramona Gonzales of Nite Jewel.
In 2010, she began releasing the bedroom and small-studio recordings that would constitute her first full-length projects. "Cookbook" is a 40-minute sound collage based on a John Cage work called "Circus On." "Tragedy" was inspired by Euripides. "Ekstasis" is less thematically connected and suggested a turn toward more traditional pop structures.
Each was recorded humbly but majestically, with grand, gothic echo and extended explorations that suggested a kinship with both the Medieval liturgical songs of Hildegard von Bingen and British art-pop chanteuse Kate Bush.
This approach continued for "Loud City Song," she said. Holter, whose primary instrument is piano, composed detailed sketches as demos at her home in Echo Park. Rather than mix and master these handcrafted works and release them as she'd done in the past, though, she hired producer Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, whose day job is as Beck's engineer and who has collaborated with Nite Jewel's Gonzales (to whom he is married) and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
Holter described the situation as "the best of both worlds." She was working in a studio with a producer and talented instrumentalists to embody "Loud City Song," "but I was also able to do a lot of things at home. I wrote it all at home, and I came up with a lot of ideas by recording demos."
On the phone while commuting to Beck's studio, Greif-Neill said that when he and Holter were preparing to record she handed him demos that he calls "fully formed. The instant I heard it I knew. I saw how vast the world she was writing about was. When she used a string-patch on her synth, I could see a full orchestra underneath. I saw into how expansive the vision was."
He said that he and Holter were recently looking at his early notes on these foundational recordings, and his first reflex offered insight. "They were mostly, 'Can we keep this?' And I kept writing that. That's something that we both enjoy: that initial moment of creation in a demo. Something left in the demo stage has that raw quality, when the human touch is so palpable."
A clash between clarity and fog permeates "Loud City Song," a recording wide with sonic space that rejoices as much in moments of silence as with enormous arrangements. The minimal eeriness of "World" layers Holter's voice dozens of times to create a choir. "Maxim's I" swirls amid cymbals and what feels like a cathedral full of cellos and organs — only to halt midstream and spin into a snare-drum-led march before moving back into a velveteen groove.
Set in the middle is the record's only non-Holter penned song, a floating, drumless version of "Hello Stranger," a soul song made famous in 1963 by Barbara Lewis. Holter blends a mysterious electronic hum with the rumble of a strummed contrabass, and the competing tension creates a feeling of music untethered. Thematically, Holter said, the song reminded her of a relationship among an aged couple in "Gigi."
"The whole song — there are no concrete details. 'I'm so glad you're here again. Please don't treat me the way you used to.' But that's pretty much the only detail you get," she said. "It's wonderfully vague, really."
Holter, by contrast, speaks directly when it comes to her work. While sitting in the Pasadena park, a nearby homeless man started screaming obscenities at random passersby, which continued for the next 10 minutes. But other than a pause to acknowledge the strangeness, Holter tuned out the drama.
Holter said she prefers to work with both acoustic and electronic tones. "Not as a principle, but I find that I do want, when I'm recording, to have this particular sonic power that you can only get by blending those two things." On earlier works, she added, she compensated for a lack of acoustic instrumentation by layering the only non-electronic sounds she had at her disposal: voice, harmonium, piano and touches of cello drones.
The freedom in having eight expert players was liberating for everyone, Greif-Neill said. As he and Holter envisioned it, though, the musicians were just part of a template that included "using bits of the demos, using bits of field recordings she's done, going into the studio and properly recording good players — and then combining that whole thing." The poppy "This Is a True Heart," for example, features jazz-inspired stand-up bass, tenor sax, richly layered voices, a midsong breakaway to the sound of footsteps in an echoed room and a tiny synthetic high-hat beat.
Greif-Neill said watching Holter work in a full studio after mostly confining herself to computer-based recording was a lesson in artistic clarity. "She'd never been in a situation like that," he said, "where she was able to be in the studio and to be directing these musicians. Even extremely confident people sometimes bend and doubt themselves, but her confidence with her own music — it did not seem to affect the process."
Nor does her confidence waver onstage, he added, noting that he and Gonzales had performed on a bill with Holter and witnessed her effect. "Honestly, we were in Poland last week, and I was blown away by how her music appeals to people. To me it's so truly esoteric, so very strange — and even academic — at times. But seeing the festival audience of thousands of people — everybody sort of dancing, swaying a little bit to her music. I'm still very blown away that it has such a wide appeal."
Holter will return to Los Angeles to prepare for her fall tour, which begins on Sept. 11 in Los Angeles at the First Unitarian Church. From there, she'll perform dates in San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York and elsewhere before heading to Scandinavia for a set of concerts.


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"The Commission will not direct Customs to detain all subject HTC products because the Commission does not have the information necessary to determine whether the respondents are currently violating the Commission's limited exclusion order," the ITC said on its website.
"The facts recited by Apple in its submission do not conclusively demonstrate that HTC's representations were inaccurate at the time that they were made."
New phones from HTC, the One X and the EVO 4G LTE, were held up at customs for at least a month as officials checked the mobes for the naughty patent-infringing tech, but they were let through at the end of May.
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New theories shine light on origins of Native Americans
A team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the remains of a one-year-old boy who died 12,600 years ago and compared it with genetic information of modern Native Americans. Magus Film / Linus Dahomé Mørk Zachary Halberd & Anders Thormann
A new study, based on the DNA of a child buried in Montana more than 12,000 years ago, shows many Native Americans have ties to same ancestors as the boy.
Scientists have analyzed the DNA of a little boy buried in Montana more than 12,000 years ago, shedding light on the contentious subject of who peopled the New World.
The results confirm that Native Americans can trace their heritage to the earliest people to firmly establish themselves in the New World. Some scholars have suggested that later migrants who displaced the original settlers are the source of today's native people.
The data imply "that Native Americans are descended from the first people that populated at the least the Lower 48 states … and all of South America," study author Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, said in an interview. "I must say, I didn't expect this result."
Not everyone was surprised.
"This discovery basically confirms what (Native American) tribes never doubted — that we have been here since time immemorial," another study author, Shane Doyle, a professor of Native American studies at Montana State University and a member of the Crow tribe, told reporters Tuesday.
The new insights were born of tragedy. About 12,600 years ago, a boy aged 1 to 1½ was buried with care in what is now central Montana. His body was covered with red-ocher pigment and consigned to the earth along with a cache of 125 tools and other objects, including heirlooms made of rare and valuable elk antler. The boy's cause of death is unknown. His burial, discovered by accident in 1968, is the oldest in North America.
The grave's distinctive spear points and other items show the boy belonged to the Clovis people, who hunted mastodon, mammoth and other big game starting roughly 13,000 years ago. The Clovis people flourished across the modern-day United States and northern Mexico, but the grave site of the "Anzick Child," named for the owners of the land where he was found, is the only known Clovis burial.
When researchers analyzed the Anzick child's DNA and compared it to the genomes of living Native Americans, they found that the boy's family members were the ancestors of multiple Central and South American groups, such as the Maya of Central America and the Karitiana people of Brazil. Willerslev estimates that roughly 80% of Native Americans are descended from the Anzick group, contradicting claims by other scholars that the Clovis people didn't leave much of a genetic legacy.
"The Anzick family is directly ancestral to so many people in the Americas … almost like a missing link, if you will," Willerslev said Tuesday. "That's astonishing."
The results overturn the idea that migrants who colonized the Americas after the Clovis people are the true ancestors to Native Americans. And the discovery "puts the final nail in the coffin" for the idea that the ancestors of Native Americans may have crossed to the New World from Europe, says study author Ripan Malhi of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
With the genetic data, the researchers can construct a rough narrative of the peopling of the New World. From Siberia, ancient people gradually crossed a now-vanished land bridge to Alaska. Some drifted south, giving rise to the Clovis people and colonizing the United States and Central and South America. Others stayed in the north and founded the lineage leading to the modern-day Cree and Athabascan peoples of northern North America. The study is published in this week's Nature.
"It's a very important paper and provides very important data," says human geneticist Antonio Torroni of Italy's University of Pavia, who was not involved in the research. But "it's not the end of the story." He and others are cautious about the new study's argument that the Clovis people are the forerunners of many of today's Native Americans.
"It's not an unreasonable hypothesis," says University of Utah anthropological geneticist Dennis O'Rourke. "I wouldn't view it yet as a confirmed bit of history." He says that analyzing more Clovis genomes would clarify the relationship. Study author Michael Waters of Texas A&M University responds that the Anzick child's DNA shows unequivocally that he is related to the peoples of Central and South America.
The debate will continue, but the researchers are drawing praise for reaching out to Native Americans, who have long been wary of scientists seeking to study remains from the past. Willeslev and Doyle visited many tribal representatives living near the burial site and were in contact with others. At the tribes' request, this spring or early summer, the Anzick child will be reburied in the same spot where he was laid to rest more than 12 millennia ago.


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B. Birdseye Maple (Acer saccharum) – A highly sought after, figured form of sugar maple speckled with distinctive eye-like markings, pale golden-yellow in color with patches of reddish-brown heartwood. Despite its swirling figure, this dense, hard wood turns beautifully.
C. Bocote (Cordia gerascanthus) – With a waxy texture, it works easily and takes a high polish. Best glued with epoxy or polyurethane. Its heartwood is tobacco- to reddish-brown with a variegated appearance, while the sapwood is grayish-yellow.
D. Chechen (Metopium brownei) – Fine textured and variegated in color from brown to reddish-brown, with a golden luster.
E. Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) – Variable color, but is typically deep orange-red with dark markings. Excellent working properties, but natural oils make it tricky to glue.
F. African Ebony (Diospyrus crassiflora) – Black-brown to jet-black in color, this wood is extremely dense and hard. It has a very smooth texture and polishes to a glossy luster, but is hard on tool edges.
G. Honduras Rosewood (Dalbergia stevensonii) – Pink-brown to purple with alternating light and dark zones. Moderately difficult to work due to hardness, but takes detail beautifully.
H. Olivewood (Olea europaea) – Tan to golden in color with distinctive dark brown grain patterns, this fragrant medium-hard wood turns and carves well, and polishes to a smooth, high finish.
J. Padauk (Pterocarpus soyauxii) – Open-grained, but takes a good finish and is vivid red to purple-brown with white sapwood.
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FRISCO, Texas — After solid substitute performances in Sunday's 2-1 loss away to Los Angeles, FC Dallas midfielders Brek Shea and Eric Avila are expected to be effective options off the bench against Real Salt Lake on Saturday (5 p.m. ET, Fox Soccer Channel).
"They both helped us [against LA]," coach Schellas Hyndman said. "When you get players like that coming off the bench for you to add a little bit of spark in the attack, that was what we needed against LA. Those are two guys that we definitely will be thinking about getting on the field."
Shea has actually started 21 games this year, notching five goals and four assists. But he hasn't started since Sept. 16 when he was ejected in the first half of a 2-2 draw with New York, and Marvin Chavez has assumed the starting role one the left side.
"I want to help the team go far whether that's a starting role or coming off the bench," Shea said this week. "Whatever [Hyndman] asks of me, I'm going to come out, play my best and help the team win."
Clearly, though, Shea would prefer to be in the starting XI when Dallas step onto the field on Saturday.
"I always want to start," Shea said. "I'm competitive and want to get out there. I can show this week that I really want to start, but if coach doesn't put me in there, I'm going to do everything I can coming off the bench."
Avila, on the other hand, has been FCD's "energy guy" off the bench, coming on in the second half to provide fresh legs and pace to his side at a time when opposing defenses are getting tired. For the year, he has appeared in 18 games, including one start. He has one goal and one assist.
"I came on as the first sub and felt great. I'm glad to be in that rotation," he said. "It's playoffs and I've got to be ready for anything."
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At 11:24a -0800 11/30/96, David Perrell wrote: >Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >> And you can find about 50 of 'em listed in a <table> at: >> <http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/doc-charset.html>. > >This is the most legible table I've seen. But only three non-Latin1 Thanks! >entity names. And Ydieresis is marked as unavailable on the Windows >platform -- invalid typographers might find this confusing. ::checking local copy of "ie/author/html30/char_set.htm" whose source I saved to disk before MS removed that naughty page:: Well whaddaya know... guess I really *need* to update that table (I didn't realize that the MS page showed more characters than the other Windows charset tables I had as references -- they must've sneaked a few new ones in!). I've been planning to make a charset cross-reference table too; I have one (Mac+Win+cp437) in an Excel spreadsheet, but not yet as HTML. Gonna do an ASCII/EBCDIC cross-reference also, if I can figure out whether the EBCDIC chart reads left to right or top to bottom... :) >I haven't found any reference that equates entity names with Unicode >(except for Latin1). That's why I don't have many entity names in that section -- just dunno what to put. When an industry-wide consensus appears, along with browser support, then I'll include whatever entity names have been agreed upon... __________________________________________________________________________ Walter Ian Kaye <firstname.lastname@example.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript, Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, SongwriterReceived on Saturday, 30 November 1996 22:43:46 UTC
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