Re: UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live)

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From	Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx>
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Subject	Re: UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live)
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:47:19 +0000, RS Wood wrote:

> On 2014-02-17 09:22:16 +0000, RS Wood said:
> 
>> In article <bmdpsqFhkbuU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>  wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> 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.

Wow! Works fine here on pan.



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SoylentNews.org is live wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 01:52 +0000
  Re: SoylentNews.org is live RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-17 09:22 +0000
    UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-17 09:47 +0000
      Re: UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live) Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-19 19:54 +0000
      Re: UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live) Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-02-19 20:14 -0600
      Re: UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live) Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-02-23 10:33 +0000
  Re: SoylentNews.org is live wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 16:45 +0000
    Re: SoylentNews.org is live Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 09:46 -0500
      Re: SoylentNews.org is live RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-18 16:00 +0000
        Re: SoylentNews.org is live Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-18 17:06 -0800
          Re: SoylentNews.org is live Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 09:45 -0500
            Re: SoylentNews.org is live RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-19 14:59 +0000

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