On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:56, Carl Cerecke wrote:
But a special ... for a plain-text medium like email? That's just too... silly)
<silly> Pah! * Correct grammar is never silly. * It is not particularly hard for me to write ellipsis, as I use the GNOME Character Palette applet. * In addition â as I like pointing out to those who will listen â there many variants on "plain-text": ASCII, ANSI, EBCDIC, PostScript Standard Encoding Vector, Windows Text, MacOS < 9, UTF-8, UTF-7, UTF-16, ISO Latin-1, ISO Latin-2, ISO Latin-3â
OK. Point taken. But I wouldn't describe UTF-8 (and friends) as plain text. For example, the character â or â can easily be represented by the strings "13." and "(19)" respectively. Having each represented as a single char is, IMHO, nuts.
Cheers, Carl.
