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Re: Around the world with Unicode

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Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> writes:

> On 2017-12-04, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> > Unicode is really exciting, because it lets software handle two things:
> 
> Yuck. I'm sticking with ASCII. :)

If you need to correspond or create text or print copy in Arabic,
Hebrew, Chinese, Hindi, Klingon or whatever, it's just fine that there
is (or will be RSN :-) a standardized way to do it digitally.

But it really irritates me that some of my correspondents -- the
technically clueless ones -- writing in a venue that is all English
language and an informal context never destined for typesetting or
publishing, use software that gratuitously puts in (what I take to be)
the UTF-8 chars for left & right single and double quotes, long dash,
ellipsis, apostrophe inter alia that can be handled just fine with
ASCII.  Then, because the result is "binary", it's formatted as
quoted-printable. So I have to run their text through assorted macros
to convert it from Dog's Breakfast to readable ASCII.  It's casual
email in English, FFS, not a submission to the Times of London.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Around the world with Unicode RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-12-04 13:34 -0500
  Re: Around the world with Unicode Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-04 21:30 +0000
  Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-04 23:53 +0200
    Re: Around the world with Unicode Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2017-12-05 00:14 +0000
      Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-05 09:07 +0200
        Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-05 10:58 +0000
          Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-05 13:24 +0200
            Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-05 12:46 +0000
              Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-05 15:28 +0200
                Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-05 18:10 +0000
  Re: Around the world with Unicode Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-06 03:48 +0000
    Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-06 02:19 -0400
      Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-06 09:31 +0200
      Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-06 11:25 +0000
        Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-06 15:25 +0200
          Re: Around the world with Unicode "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2017-12-06 18:32 +0000
            Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 00:22 +0200
              Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-06 19:57 -0400
          Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-06 18:43 +0000
            Re: Around the world with Unicode Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-12-06 20:49 +0100
            Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 00:25 +0200
              Re: Around the world with Unicode scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2017-12-06 22:56 +0000
              Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-06 22:57 +0000
          Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-06 19:48 -0400
            Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 10:02 +0200
              Re: Around the world with Unicode Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-07 16:54 +0000
                Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-07 14:55 -0400
              Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-07 14:43 -0400
                Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 21:09 +0200
                Re: Around the world with Unicode The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 11:48 -0800
                Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-08 00:43 -0400

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