[thelist] As an infrequent poster

Greg Strange gstrange at e-tsi.com
Mon Jul 10 01:01:55 CDT 2000


on 7/10/00 12:03 AM, Oliver Lineham at oliver at lineham.co.nz wrote:

> 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! ;)
> 
> </ol>

This seems awfully English-centric.  What about all the "extended
characters" for the umlaut-u, ess-tset, etc.?

Just wondering.  When you say character references what exactly are you
saying?

Greg





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