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Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short

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Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 April 2018 13:19:49 UTC+1, D B Davis  wrote:

<snip>

>>     BTW, my new usenet software application enables me to now post UTF-8
>> characters. It's a shame that Brian M Scott apparently stopped posting
>> to rasw because he likes to use UTF-8. It's my understanding that google
>> groups also enables the use of UTF-8.
>>     It enables me to close each of my posts with an end mark. The
>> character at the end of this paragraph is my end mark for the time
>> being. It's the UTF-8 symbol for Mars, which doubles as the medical
>> symbol for male. ♂
>
> UTF-8 is a Unicode encoding that includes plain ASCII - and I wondered
> if you knew that your male symbol was being displayed!  ☺

My newsreader tin displays your smiley. My tin configuration calls vi to
edit followups. Although vi also knows about UTF-8 for reasons 
unbeknownst to me when used as a tin editor vi displays �\x99\x82 
instead of ☺ and �\x98� instead of ♂. (It ought to be interesting to
see how /that/ mess plays out during this next iteration.)
    My M O is to just use vi enough to copy and paste the initial
followup into gedit, which is a far better editor. My new software then 
allows me to post my final draft of a gedit followup with embedded 
UTF-8 characters.
    My UTF-8 posts to rasw are mostly to beta-test my new software and
for the (lame) lulz. Ultimately it will pay dividends in the math and 
physics groups. People in those groups tend to be a little ... 
different. More of them, or at least the ones worth paying attention to,
probably use UTF-8. (End mark change to celebrate new topic.) ⚛

Thank you,

-- 
Don

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The Martian Chronicler falls short a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2018-04-28 08:50 -0700
  Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-28 16:32 +0000
  Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-28 17:02 +0000
    Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2018-04-28 22:30 -0500
      Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-29 04:05 +0000
        Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-29 12:19 +0000
          Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2018-04-29 13:30 +0100
            Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-29 15:13 +0000
              Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-04-29 13:55 -0700
            Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Stephen Harker <sjharker@netspace.net.au> - 2018-04-30 17:29 +1000
          Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-04-29 06:35 -0700
            Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-29 16:32 +0000
          Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-29 15:09 +0000
          Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2018-04-29 18:52 -0500
            Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-30 13:27 +0000
              Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-30 08:22 -0600
          Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-01 13:57 -0500
            Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-01 13:59 -0500
        Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-04-30 17:54 -0700
          Re: The Martian Chronicler falls short djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-01 05:25 +0000
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