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: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: UTF-8 (was Re: SoylentNews.org is live) Date: 23 Feb 2014 10:33:03 GMT Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 1tarO1d02SYHrWUUnp6zVAe7XT2Sj6J31arH8zS+vlIRCXr9D5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UNpSXqMLg/dfv7UqY8HLePyfDx8= User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:776 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 , >> 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. Wow! Works fine here on pan. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org My posts (including this one) are my copyright and if @diy_forums on Twitter wish to tweet them they can pay me £30 a post *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor