OT - Issue with "Add Text Of Doc" feature

[Julian Field]

On 15/05/2009 19:52, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>    
>> On 14/05/2009 17:41, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>      
>>> Mark Sapiro wrote:
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>>>        
>>>> It would be nice if you could grok
>>>>          
>> That word doesn't appear in my Oxford dictionary...
>>      
>>>>    the encoding from the system locale
>>>> and specify it, or barring that, provide a config option to set it.
>>>>          
>
> It's a reference from Robert Heinlein's 1961 novel _Stranger in a
> Strange Land_.  See for example<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok>
> which, interestingly, claims it is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
>    
You're absolutely right, it is in the Oxford English Dictionary, 11th 
Edition Revised. However, listed in the etymology of the word is "1960s: 
invented word". So I reserve the right not to use it :-)

Jules

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