[thelist] As an infrequent poster

[Oliver Lineham]

At 03:19 9/07/00 -0400, you wrote:

>destruct is beyond me. You're probably asking yourself "well why the hell
>did he use a #%*@ em-dash?" - well when one does a lot of print work and
>uses a Mac one uses the extended ascii characters subconsciously -
>especially when they are a quick and intuitive  2-key combination (unlike
>the PC where one has to play a Bach fugue on their keyboard)  ;)

You should avoid extended ascii on the internet anyway. I didn't see no 
em-dash.  I saw an anonymous black box, the same way most windows users 
will see most extended characters.

There's also the fact that extended ascii isn't AFAIK in the spec for plain 
text email.  Same reason why extended ascii in HTML is a no-no (should 
always use character references instead).

Yay, this thread somehow got back to web dev! ;)

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