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Re: A Change
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 8 May 2003 23:39:54 GMT
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:00:10PM +0000, Richard Noeckel wrote:
> I'm using the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) superset; and I bet that every
> newsreader written or updated in the last five years can handle that too.
huh, funny how that works. I'm running mutt that was compiled on April
20th, 2003. So yes, I'm sure it _can_ handle all the current standards.
> But usually only Windows machines can handle the additional characters in
> Codepage 1252.
you mean only windows machines ignore the standards, and show characters
that don't really exist in the charset...
> I don?t do this to mess with other peoples documents appearance.
> I jus? like to use the spell-check function in Word!
personally, I think it's easier to read a post with typos that one
that's missing a whole bunch of letters. What happened to the 't' in
the 'jus?' above?
besides, there's plenty of newsreaders/email clients that can spellcheck
for you, while keeping to standards.
> Seriously, it isn't easy to know which special characters will be readable by
> nearly everyone if you or your localization knows how to generate those
> characters (e.g. 'Milton Train Works?' can't be read by everyone, while '1.0
> ? 0.2' should be fine.)
Again, it's easy to know if you follow the standards. It's hard to know
if you (or the program you're using) ignores them.
:)
Dan
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