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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:14:53 GMT
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sgore@=spamcake=superonline.com
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.publish, Anders Isaksson writes:
> > Despite this, all (?) Swedish ISP:s use the tilde in user names (see sig.)
> >
> > I think the main problem is that US keyboards/users doesn't care for the
> > rest of the world, while the rest of the world have to care both for
> > themselves and the US. (On of my pet peeves: US chauvinism...)
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> Me too -- I know what you mean. And the cluelessness about non-U.S.
> conventions is IMHO even worse than the chauvinism...
>
> One thing to remember, though: The A in ASCII does stand for American. :-)
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> Say, I've got a user-interface question about the ~ keyboard thing. Do you
> *have to* type Tilde-Space to get a plain tilde (meaning ASCII character #126),
> or can you type Tilde-Tilde (which is probably 1/10 second faster) to get a
> plain tilde? Also, when typing Tilde-Space, if you accidentally forget to let
> up the Shift key before hitting Space, is Tilde-Shift-Space interpreted the
> same as Tilde-Space? Curious minds want to know! :-) I'm sure the answer
> depends on the keyboard driver in use, but I wonder what some of the more
> common drivers do...?
>
> --Todd
Tilde is not a shift+anykey character but rather RightAlt+anykey (ü in
Turkish "q" keyboards) character. RightAlt key (actually named as "Alt
Gr") behaves differently from LeftAlt key in most european keyboards and
only used for performing a third task with a given key.
It is strange but although we don't have any letters in our alphabet
that combined with tilde, we must press space too, to type tilde..:-)
Selçuk
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| (...) Me too -- I know what you mean. And the cluelessness about non-U.S. conventions is IMHO even worse than the chauvinism... One thing to remember, though: The A in ASCII does stand for American. :-) Say, I've got a user-interface question about (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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