[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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