Sunday, June 6, 2004, Allie Martin wrote: > This little dilemma is really no different from neatly banging > together a table in plain text using a fixed width font. You wish the > other person at the other end to see the table as you constructed it. > Pity that you can't break into their machines to make them use the PTV > that uses only fixed width fonts. :)
In that case the person who gets the table can do something that is _much_ better: (S)he can tell the sender that doing tables like that isn't necessarily a good thing and show him or her a better alternative. > If they wish to use emoticons to translate common character combo's > into images, then that's their prerogative. Normally, yes, and I shouldn't mess with the settings that _they_ want, I don't want to either. What I want is simply a way to make TB know that /this particular message/ contains smilie shortcuts that should be rendered as text. > Denying them emoticon support if they want it isn't, IMO, a reasonable > solution. I haven't said that emoticons are necessarily a bad thing that shouldn't be, so I don't deny anyone anything. What I have said, however, is that the way it works in TB now isn't good because it denies the sender control of what the first impression of the mail sent will be. If I select another message encoding, I'll get a visual feedback (although it seems to be true only for non-ASCII characters). If I write :-) while composing, even the HTML-editor will only show me "colon-dash-right parenthesis" without any clue whatsoever that it might be converted to a emoticon. At the same time, TB knows what's in _my_ pdsf.msl, and it could easily be made to know which ones the pdsf.msl that was distributed with the executable contained. Therefore it wouldn't, IMO, be an unreasonable if TB noticed that and -- if I wanted to -- told me so. -- Urban A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. (Ludwig Wittgenstein) ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
