On 20 August 2013 21:58, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Aug 20, 2013 12:12 PM, "Jason Grout" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 8/20/13 1:54 PM, John Cremona wrote:
>>>
>>> No doubt no-one is still reading this thread but I will post one more
>>> entry when am back in the office tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> I am :).
>>
>> I sure hope this cosmetic change that is causing so much headache doesn't
>> turn away many people.  Personally, I don't think the change was worth the
>> trouble it causes.
>>
>> Jason
>
> I think in the long run it will increase the number of users because it
> forces us all to be more unicode aware.

Probably right.  If my main desktop terminal was badly configured so
that it would not even display man pages without strangeness (in the
bold face words) that was something I would have noticed and fixed
regardless of the sage banner.  And it is worth while all of learning
the kind of misconfiguration which causes it to happen so we can help
others.

John

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> William
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