Re: PRI #299

From: Mark Davis ☕️ <mark_at_macchiato.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 18:16:17 +0200

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com> wrote:
>> Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white
>> rectangles with hex digits in them.
>> In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and
>> 3F3 in the lower row.

> > This is a handy feature, at least for character geeks like us, but "most
> > platforms" might be a bit misleading here. There is a rather commonly
> > used platform that starts with the letter W which does not do this.
>
> I was a little surprised myself when I saw it in Firefox under W7
> Enterprise, but here we are.

​"Most platforms" is quite misleading.

Rather the converse: for the vast majority of people, the programs that
they use on the devices they have will *not* show unknown printable
characters in a format with readable hex digits.

Mark
<https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
Received on Mon Jul 06 2015 - 11:18:02 CDT

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