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Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter?

From Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter?
Date 2021-10-07 14:33 -0300
Organization Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop
Message-ID <87bl40kaei.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink)
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711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> writes:

> On 10/6/21 12:22 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>> 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> writes:
>> 
>>> If you don't like my opinion feel free to object. 
>> 
>> Don't care about your opinion but I'd be much more likely to read what
>> you post if you were to lose the long blocks  of 0x81 0xe2 0x96 0x88 
>> 
>>> ██....
>> 
>> in your sig.
> 
> It sounds as if your locale settings may need updated either in your
> reader or system-wide.
> 
> Are you using Gnus/Emacs? If so the Emacs wiki says:
> 
> "Auto-detection of UTF-8 is effectively disabled by default in GNU Emacs
> 21.3 and below.

Emacs 20.7. Just  so.

> [snip]
> Maybe you are using a legacy reader that doesn't understand UTF-8 text.
> UTF-8 has been standard for many years now.

This is Usenet. a.f.c is an English language newsgroup.  I'm an ASCII
guy, expecially  in English on Usenet.  There are work-arounds for for
the occasionally wanted typographic items missing from ASCII.  I
certainly don't need all the 2^32 or whatever symbols/chars/glyphs.


Thank you for your tutorial on enabling UTF-8.  Saved in case Hell
should, in fact, freeze over in my lifetime.

> You may ignore the string of escape sequences below this line.

"Ignore" is the key word there.  "below" is variable.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada


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Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-26 20:51 +0100
  Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-09-26 14:20 -0600
    Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-27 09:58 +0100
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-27 10:03 -0500
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-09-27 19:57 +0000
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2021-09-28 13:09 +0000
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> - 2021-09-29 11:54 -0500
          Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-29 20:42 +0100
          Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-29 20:20 +0000
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com> - 2021-09-29 01:13 +0000
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-09-29 22:25 -0400
  Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-26 21:44 +0100
    Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-09-27 01:41 -0300
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-09-26 23:54 -0600
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-27 00:01 -0700
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-09-27 20:25 -0300
          Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-09-28 00:03 -0600
          Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> - 2021-09-28 01:04 -0500
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Nemo <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-27 13:45 -0400
    Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-27 10:00 +0100
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-27 11:03 +0100
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-09-27 21:10 -0300
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2021-09-27 18:23 -0500
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> - 2021-09-28 01:18 -0500
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com> - 2021-09-29 01:20 +0000
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2021-09-29 17:10 -0500
          Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-30 09:41 +0100
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-30 10:22 +0100
              Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-09-30 10:42 +0100
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-30 14:31 +0000
              Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2021-10-01 01:58 +0000
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-30 10:07 -0500
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2021-09-30 10:23 -0500
  Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-27 15:35 -0400
    Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-27 21:34 +0100
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-27 18:24 -0500
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-27 21:45 -0400
          Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2021-09-28 13:12 +0000
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-28 18:33 +0100
              Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-28 18:16 +0000
                Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-28 20:20 +0100
                Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-28 16:39 -0700
                Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> - 2021-09-29 12:03 -0500
                Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-09-30 23:11 -0500
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-09-30 23:17 -0500
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2021-10-01 18:57 +0000
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-10-06 02:11 -0500
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-10-06 14:22 -0300
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-10-07 00:31 -0500
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-10-07 14:33 -0300
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-10-07 13:49 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-10-07 16:52 -0300
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@icloud.com> - 2021-10-07 20:13 +0000
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-10-07 18:54 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@icloud.com> - 2021-10-07 23:50 +0000
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-10-07 20:12 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-10-07 20:24 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-10-08 08:09 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-10-08 13:13 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-10-08 14:53 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-10-08 19:47 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-10-09 13:03 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-10-09 20:56 -0400
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2021-10-09 05:48 +0000
                Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-10-12 10:26 -0500
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-09-28 19:03 +0000
              Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-28 16:45 -0500
              Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2021-09-29 17:27 -0500
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-28 16:41 -0500
            Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-09-28 16:55 -0700
              Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-09-28 20:53 -0400
        Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-28 09:36 -0700
          Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-28 16:46 -0500
      Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com> - 2021-09-29 01:18 +0000
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