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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: 4 Jun 2014 17:31:35 GMT
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On 2014-06-04, Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-06-04, Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
>> ><billy@MIX.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> >> In comp.sys.mac.system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > Do you also prefer the way Thunderbord treats Unicode text, because
>> >> > it sure seems to have fucked up the text in your reply.
>> >> 
>> >> Unicode handling is the biggest problem in newsreaders today.
>> >> 
>> >> Next is insufficient (static) buffer space, along with handling
>> >> excessively long subjects.  And references.
>> >> 
>> >> Billy Y..
>> >
>> > Unicode support is mostly irrelevant for the vast majority of Usenet
>> > users who spend their time in English language only groups where 99.99%
>> > of posts are easily expressed in only ASCII.
>> 
>> I wouldn't call it irrelevant, but a nice-to-have.
>
> *shrug* I just personally can't think of many times I've failed to
> express myself in ASCII. Maybe I'm just used to it? Still, Billy calling
> it the "biggest problem in newsreaders today" strikes me as absurd. We
> all have our own favoured features and bugbears, but put in rational
> context, it's hard to see Unicode as any more than - as JR puts it - a
> "nice-to-have".

For most Usenet use cases, yes. For other unrelated use cases, Unicode
is extremely important.

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