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Re: new lego web site, microsoft, and trademark stupidity.
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Date: 
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 13:14:10 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:

Hey look. Lego's Fair Play policy says, and I quote:

"Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with an ¨ symbol each
  time it is used."

Yes, that's right. "An" [sic] diacritical mark.

As in: I really like Lego¨ bricks.

*sigh*

Whoa, wow, yeah, they're using a raw 8-bit value 168 there, rather than the
HTML entity "®"  (tsk, tsk)

Welp, if they had a feedback button or something, it'd be possible to let
them know, but...

:-/

--Todd



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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in article <381305a8.86576575@l...et.com>... (...) each (...) the (...) [Allan sighs, remembering the good old days when he could still see the LEGO website at all....] (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)

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  new lego web site, microsoft, and trademark stupidity.
 
Hey look. Lego's Fair Play policy says, and I quote: "Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with an ¨ symbol each time it is used." Yes, that's right. "An" [sic] diacritical mark. As in: I really like Lego¨ bricks. *sigh* (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)

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