From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 08:09:21 CDT
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai at in dash nomine dot org> wrote:
> <user type="average" name="joe">As long as my keyboard does not give
> me the appropriate characters I need, I will stick to the ones that
> are printed on my keys.</user>
What, everyone's not using MSKLC? ☺
> It's all lovely to be sitting here virtually on the Unicode
> mailinglist, but what exactly is being done to make the average user
> aware of the possibilities he/she has for using the correct
> characters. How large a percentage of the people will even care,
> especially if the means to get there are cumbersome or not even in
> place.
It's bad enough when someone creates a program called "demoronizer" to
remove the directional quotation marks automatically inserted by a Very
Large Software Vendor, simply because the resulting text is mistagged as
to character set somewhere down the line. Admittedly this is very old
news.
> I'll let you off the hook for using double spacing after a period
> Doug. :P
You should; I don't see anywhere in Unicode or elsewhere that this is
"wrong" for English. But this is a minefield in a holy war in which I
am a conscientious objector.
-- Doug Ewell * Arvada, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ
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