Re: Any other Italians on Unicode List? (was RE: French annotated Cha

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 15:34:45 EDT

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:

> Patrick Andries' lexicon made me wonder how some of these terms would
> possibly be like in Italian!?
> big-endian: big-endian
> little-endian: little-endian (?)

See if there is an Italian translation of _Gulliver's Travels_ by
Jonathan Swift. This is the origin of these terms, referring to
two political parties (those who broke their eggs at the big end
vs. the little end).

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