On 11/23/18 4:12 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
That's English-language cultural snobbery.
I don't think I'd go that far.
I'd suspect it's an unfortunate false positive of a spam filtering
technique that Guy uses.
Does the technique have some negative side effects? Sure.
Are said side effects intentional? I doubt it.
I'm a native Anglophone but I live in a non-English speaking country,
Czechia.
I bet you see all sorts of things that I'm ignorant of.
For example, right now, I am in my office in Křižíkova. I can't
type that name correctly without Unicode characters, because the ANSI
character set doesn't contain enough letters for Czech.
Intriguing. Is there an old MS-DOS Code Page (or comparable technique)
that does encompass the necessary characters?
It can cope with some Western European letters needed for Spanish,
French etc., but not even enough for the Norwegian letter ``ø''. So
I can type the name of the district of Prague I'm in -- Karlín --
and you'll probably see that, but the street name, I am guessing not.
Would you please provide an example? (I'm curious if my email client
will display things properly.) Feel free to pick any example that you
like so that you don't have to reveal information you might want to keep
private.
"Krizikova" is usually close enough but it's not correct. Those letters
are important. E.g. "sýrové" means cheesy, but "syrové" means
raw. That's a significant difference.
Oh my. I had no idea that accent characters made such a difference. But
I consider that to be my personal ignorance living in the U.S.A. I do
NOT think it's anybody's fault by my own. I'll defend others if someone
tries to say that their native / local regional norm is the problem.
It matters to me and I'm not even Czech and don't speak it particularly
well...
Fair enough.
So if you tried to mail me something at work -- the address I normally
use, for instance for the Alphasmart Dana Wireless on the way to to
me from Baltimore right now -- and you get a reply saying "package for
[streetname] undeliverable" in the subject -- you'd just reject it.
That's basically discriminating against people who don't speak your
language, and in my book, that's not OK.
I will say that I think everybody has their own individual prerogative
to filter email as they see fit. They just need to know that they are
doing and own the fact that they might be causing unintentional harm.
P.S. Resending from the correct email address. — A recent Thunderbird
update broke the Correct-Identity add-on. :-(
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Grant. . . .
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