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Subject:	Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:54:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Chris Dee writes: > In lugnet.cad.dev, Manfred Moolhuysen writes: > > But I'm a bit afraid that the dash and underscore charcters are to similar > > and could easely lead to confusion. Are there any other acceptable > > characters that HTLM would allow us to use? > Yes - I think the original intent of # was 'in two parallel groups'. > How about '='? That will work in a URL. It is almost like two '-'s. It would have been a nice character, but = is not allowed under MS-DOS The range of special characters possible with MS-DOS are: ! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) - _ { } : ' Which of these are HTLM friendly also ? With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.

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		Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
(...) HTML can handle anything. So can HTTP, but of the characters listed above, I think it is only '-' and '_' which don't need special treatment. The next level of problems is that the parts tracker is implemented in Perl and running on a Unix (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
(...) Yes - I think the original intent of # was 'in two parallel groups'. How about '='? That will work in a URL. It is almost like two '-'s. Chris (24 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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