Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:47:19 +0000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /eIHInohRtgFI4NXXg7HrwAfa4UTjaiInGdv6Ig54jiasj2CD0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8177kDkmD5d29CwrBz8RARCM+yY= User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:477 On 2014-02-17 09:22:16 +0000, RS Wood said: > In article , > wjwlsn wrote: > >> Looks pretty good, at least on thensurface. I just signed up and got userid >> 171. >> >> http://soylentnews.org > > Very fun! I did too, and got 234. Some day I'll bequeath it to my son, > who will treasure his low user ID like something of value, ha ha! > > I remember finally getting around to signing up at Slashdot, and getting > a six digit UID in the 600,000s. I thought, "half a million others > before me, I must be absolutely the last one on the train." > > Now that Slashdot UIDs surpass (I think) 2 million, I'm often one of the > lower UIDs in discussions. Life is strange. Hey - they have enabled Unicode! Here is a comment thread where people are testing it: http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/16/2220240 It occurs to me to test Unicode here, too. Here's a copy/paste of one line from that comment: ⡌⠁⠧⠑ ⠼⠁⠒ ⡍⠜⠇⠑⠹⠰⠎ ⡣⠕⠌ The above should be a single line of Braille characters, and I'm posting it from Unison, a UTF-capable Usenet client, so I'm hoping it works.