st: Re: ST: Garbage in digest

["josemaria" <jmpsouza@usp.br>]

Dear Eric:
your message was encouraging. I decided to give a try and it seems that 
there is no problem with the accents of my name and of my institution and 
city.
Jos� Maria

Jos� Maria Pacheco de Souza, Professor Titular
Departamento de Epidemiologia
Faculdade de Sa�de P�blica/Universidade de S�o Paulo
Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 715 cep 01246-904
S�o Paulo Brasil
fones (11)3082-3886  (11)3066-7724 (11)3714-2403  (11)3768-8612
fax   (11)3082-2920  (11)3714-2403
www.fsp.usp.br/~jmpsouza
jmpsouza@usp.br

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric G. Wruck" <ewruck@econalytics.com>


> Jos� Maria wrote:
> > My name is Jos� Maria, but no problem in writing Jose Maria.
>
> Oh, please don't do that.  We'd end up losing out on little, and largely 
> subconscious, language & cultural lessons & eventually some of us will end 
> up writing Sao Paulo & think we're doing so correctly.  So many 
> names --mine fortunately is not one of them-- have been corrupted & 
> bastardized here in the United States simply because some of us, or our 
> forbears, were unwilling to make the effort to preserve the correct 
> spelling.


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