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Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time?

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Steve <lammasland@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:26:01 GMT, vallor wrote:
[...]
> > On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 13:24:32 +0000, Sn!pe wrote:
> > 
> >> vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:56:44 -0000, Steve wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> > vallor wrote:
> >>> >> This glyph doesn't use zwj, does it look acceptable?
> >>> >> 
> >>> >> ?
> >>> >> 
> >>> >> 
> >>> > It's the best looking question mark I've seen in ten minutes.
> >>> >
> >>> 
> >>> That'll happen if you're using a newsreader of our forefathers.
> >>> 
> >>> Subject: edited to remove the glyph and everything past it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Bear in mind the Robustness Principle*,  sometimes stated as:
> >> 
> >> "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept".
> >> 
> >> This very important principle is utterly disregarded by the likes of
> >> our favourite dilettante Newsreader coder from a froup near you.
> >> 
> >> * <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle>
> >>
> > 
> > I've invoked Postel's Law on my own on occasion.
> > 
> > But the state of the art in communication doesn't move forward without
> > making a lot of old, stick-in-the-mud conservatives mutter about how things
> > are better with ASCII, despite the USENET being global in scope.
> > 
> > And what's funny about this?  I can post glyphs and you can't see them, but
> > everybody else can.
> > 

Correction:  ~some~ others can see them.  

Dyed-in-the-wool, stick-in-the-mud purists just [shrug] and say "WTF?"

> > 
> > So ?? there.
> > 
> > And????
> > 
>
> I swapped newsreader to read this and it wasn't worth the effort. It seems
> to me you may be using the wrong medium. Whatsapp and Telegram has lots
> of pretty stickers and stuff to keep you amused. I've even seen colouring
> books for adults in the shops. Hours of fun.
>

I concur.  <aol>, even. 

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          Re: Test Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-12-07 20:54 +0000
            Unicode not quite ready for prime time? 🪐 (was Re: Test vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2021-12-11 10:05 +0000
              Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? ? (was Re: Test Steve <lammasland@gmail.com> - 2021-12-11 10:56 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2021-12-11 11:31 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-12-11 13:24 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2021-12-15 20:26 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? Steve <lammasland@gmail.com> - 2021-12-15 21:03 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-12-15 23:43 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2021-12-16 02:02 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? Steve <lammasland@gmail.com> - 2021-12-11 17:52 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-12-11 18:11 +0000
                Re: Unicode not quite ready for prime time? ? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-12-11 13:13 +0000

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