On 2012-04-16, at 9:36 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote: > I'm not so crazy about "." as a replacement character, though. How about > this: if your locale is UTF-8 we use the standard UTF-8 replacement > character (U+FFFD, rendered as “�”), and any other locale we use a regular > old "?". That seems more intuitive to me.
'?' has a visual density similar to alphabetic characters, so it also obscures the valid text. Using '.' as a placeholder makes it very clear that something should have appeared in that character cell without obscuring the surrounding text. U+FFFD suffers the same problem. He?r??e i???s s??o?me g?arb??l?ed tex??t. He.r..e i...s s..o.me g.arb..l.ed tex..t. --lyndon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
