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Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling)

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Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> writes:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, Keith Thompson wrote:
> "> I quote Usenet articles in a way which does not endear me to
>> persons. Not everyone reacts in the same way. OC Systems asked me how
>> do I draw those boxes.
>
> Why do you do that?"
>
> Such a quoting style is correlated with a possibly misguided
> perception that a language does not have a quotation mark at the
> beginning of each intermediate line. Indications that this perception
> is misguided are English documents which are supposedly from decades
> before Ada 83 which do
> indeed show a "“" (i.e. an English opening quotation mark) at the
> beginning of each intermediate line.
[...]

I urge you to adopt the universal Usenet convention of preceding
quoted text from previous articles with "> ".  See every other
followup article in this and other newsgroups for examples.

Everyone understands it, virtually everyone but you uses it, and
(almost?) every Usenet client fully supports it.  I can think of no
reason not to use it, unless your goal is for your posts to stand
out from others in a rather unpleasant way.

I mentioned before that your scheme seemed like a lot of effort.
In fact the level of effort is irrelevant.

You will of course do what you want, and I don't intend to discuss
it further.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-08-31 19:39 +0200
  Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-08-31 23:27 +0200
  Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Alex // nytpu <nytpu@example.invalid> - 2025-09-02 10:01 -0600
    Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-09-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-09-02 11:49 -0700
        Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-09-02 21:27 +0200
          Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-09-02 13:02 -0700
    Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-09-02 19:42 +0200
      Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Alex // nytpu <nytpu@example.invalid> - 2025-09-02 13:15 -0600
        Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-09-02 21:50 +0200
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        Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-03 04:10 +0000
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