15/06/03 Kerwin : >Ah, I see. Well, just another reason why I NEVER use non-ACSII >characters in email, even when using foreign languages. If somebody >can't understand what you're saying even without an accent mark, then >c'mon, geez.
That's not the point. People who know how to write usually can't help typing correctly. If you check you'll find that ENGLISH is the exception: other human languages use more than those 128 glyphs. That's 90% of the population. Why would 90% of the population be willing to write differently in different applications to adjust to the stupidity of the machine? >Somebody here quoted Andy Rooney a few weeks back: "Email is like a >pencil -- it just works." So keep it simple. No HTML, no high-ASCII, >none a' that. That's the beauty of Emailer. Wrong. The beauty of Emailer is that it's efficient, simple, fast, clever, and all sorts of things that concur to HELP the user, this includes handling 8-bit text and would have evolved to unicode had Emailer lived. If the user has to fight the machine or his own behavior to suit the limitations of the tool, he's using a PC. I know people who find normal to type ascii code numbers to enter accented letters. Yup, they use Wintel. I don't recall using a pencil that would require any special thinking for accented letters. When I first used email (Emailer 1.1), I faced the problem of most platforms, clients, and servers not handling 8 bit text conversions properly, specially in the minuscule (5-10%?) part of the world that only speak English. So I built an alternate keyboard description resource that would type unaccented letters in lieu of accented ones. I still had to change keyboards in the keyboards menu, so finally I just waited for software to become less stupid. ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
