On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:17:26AM +0200, Oyvind A. Holm wrote: > Back in the Slackware days i used mpage(1) to get four pages on one A4 > page -- perfect reading size. How would the letter/legal/whatever look > like in that case?
For the most part, I try not to use pages on my computer - I use documents, which can be reformatted at will, for any size paper you want, and for how ever much you want on each page. > I prefer decimal numbers. No fractions wanted. Especially in the > computer age things like that could make a big difference. Computers handle fractions just as well as decimal numbers (much better, actually.) > Why the heck doesn't every one make a clean, sharp cut > and do the conversion fast and painful -- but after that it's over. Because most people don't care. Motivating everyone to change everything for little benefit is virtually impossible, unless it's imposed from above. Most users will switch to UTF-8 when it's easier or more convienent to use that then their old charset; something that's gradually occuring with Gnome 2 and KDE 3. For me, I wish the bash/readline maintainers would finally patch the upstream versions to work right with UTF-8. > mess with hundreds of charsets which results in corrupted data. I'd > done it years ago hadn't it been for all the complaints from people > with archaic mailreaders. Just tell them that they have to upgrade. The world needs trailblazers for any new standard to be accepted. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
