Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 07:29:47 +0200 Organization: the center of color Imaging for the color blind probono institute Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <1lmqa29.k4rshchnvytzN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> X-Trace: individual.net k2pcDO0/eqZjzyTXOyqQXAxHXs4PooXgVLmNXDJrJv0LVartzw X-Orig-Path: here Cancel-Lock: sha1:dKqqKOYY/E6ThCk449uz1+gv1lA= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22354 comp.sys.mac.system:60325 In article , Alan Browne wrote: > On 2014.06.05, 18:25 , Alan Browne wrote: > > On 2014.06.05, 11:36 , Paul Magnussen wrote: > >> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: > >> > >>> 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. > >> > >> For American Usenet users, possibly, as Americans seem to disdain > >> accented characters (even in names like San José). > >> > >> For the rest of us who use words like résumé, café, Ångström, première, > >> etc. it is not irrelevant. > > > > Even for this poor thunderbird user, those accents come through perfectly. > > > > Not sure about: ≠ ± which show on the screen when typing... > > Yep. They're okay reading too. > > Don't need no stinkin' Unicode for Usenet. No, you don't... But most people do provided that they wont to frequent non english language newsgroups. One should not forget that there is NNTP servers of the Usenet for special purposes. Most of don't se them but they are there and fill a need. To make a new NNTP client unaware of Uncode is lazy, unnecessary and rude. Of course, Goog et al IS trying to burn the global village down to the ground and I'm a part of the firebrigade... -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography