On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Nick Lamb via dev-security-policy
<dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:
> On Monday, 13 March 2017 21:31:46 UTC, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
>> Are you saying that there are one or more clients that require DigiCert to
>> support Teletext strings?
>
> Can we stop saying Teletext? The X500 series standards are talking about
> Teletex. One letter shorter.
>
> Teletext was invented by the BBC, to deliver pages of text and block graphics
> in the blanking interval on analogue television transmissions. It brought joy
> to millions of people (especially nerds) around the world for several decades
> prior to analogue television going off the air.
>
> Teletex is an ITU standard, intended to supersede Fax but largely forgotten
> because it turns out Internet email is what people actually wanted. Its text
> encoding infested the X.500 series standards and thereby made dozens of
> people miserable.
I thought teletex was there to make people who use reverse solidus
('\'), circumflex ('^'), grave accent ('`'), curly brackets ('{' and
'}') and tilde ('~') sad.
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