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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:54:29 GMT
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Todd Lehman:
> Wow. OK, that certainly makes sense. So, the hypothesis is that "~" may
> have been disallowed so that commonly available software (which used "~" for
> special formatting tricks) for certain languages didn't have to be altered
> to parse-recognize URLs and avoid converting "~" in those cases? In other
> words, it may have been a legacy thing for backward compatibility with
> existing text processing tools?
It works like I described (at least the ~n case) even in
Word97/Win95(DK), so I am not sure it is correct to call it
a "backward" compatibility problem[1]. People have to learn
to type <tilde> <space> to get a tilde on most European
PC's.
Play well,
Jacob
1) Despite my low opinions of MS products.
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| (...) Wow. OK, that certainly makes sense. So, the hypothesis is that "~" may have been disallowed so that commonly available software (which used "~" for special formatting tricks) for certain languages didn't have to be altered to parse-recognize (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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