Re: Unicode and Script Encoding Initiative in San Jose Mercury News
At 09:35 PM 10/27/03 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote: That said, I can try to improve my use of real Unicode punctuation on these lists, if I have time to paste it in (since my keyboard doesn't support it). Please don't. I remember being told by someone a few years back that I should limit my use of UTF-8 on the Unicode list, due to the inability of some list members' e-mail software to handle it. You always have the choice of being a UTF-8 purist - OR - getting your point across. Notice that we don't publish the standard as UTF-8 files, but in PDF (where we can make sure we control what people get to see, so our message gets across ;-). A./
Re: Unicode and Script Encoding Initiative in San Jose Mercury News
Eric Muller emuller at adobe dot com wrote: Doug Ewell wrote: [...] about You see, boys and girls, computers think only in numbers -- in a Silicon Valley paper, [...] Should we tell them about real quotes? real quotes are not just for Web publication; they are also for email. Throw in real dashes, of the kind en or em you prefer Nice. I contend that my use of straight quotes and ASCII hyphi in an ephemeral e-mail is far less offensive than the Mercury News'(s) use of ``this abomination'' in a professionally written article. That said, I can try to improve my use of real Unicode punctuation on these lists, if I have time to paste it in (since my keyboard doesn't support it). I remember being told by someone a few years back that I should limit my use of UTF-8 on the Unicode list, due to the inability of some list members' e-mail software to handle it. At the time I was one of those members with a Unicode-ignorant e-mail client, and I still didn't agree with the suggestion. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
Re: Unicode and Script Encoding Initiative in San Jose Mercury News
Deborah W. Anderson dwanders at pacbell dot net wrote: The Business section in today's San Jose Mercury News (Friday, Oct. 24) has a story on Unicode and the Script Encoding Initiative: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7092371.htm Nice article. Good to see some mainstream publicity for this worthy effort. My eyes rolled waaay up when I got to the part about You see, boys and girls, computers think only in numbers -- in a Silicon Valley paper, yet! But I guess this did appear in the Business section, not the Technology section. On the typographical dark side, it was quite discouraging to see ``this horrible quoting convention'' in a Web publication of an article about Unicode. Should we tell them about real quotes? -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
Re: Unicode and Script Encoding Initiative in San Jose Mercury News
Doug Ewell wrote: [...] about You see, boys and girls, computers think only in numbers -- in a Silicon Valley paper, [...] Should we tell them about real quotes? real quotes are not just for Web publication; they are also for email. Throw in real dashes, of the kind en or em you prefer Eric. 8-)
Unicode and Script Encoding Initiative in San Jose Mercury News
The Business section in today's San Jose Mercury News (Friday, Oct. 24) has a story on Unicode and the Script Encoding Initiative: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7092371.htm (The full article is available on the Web for a limited time.) Deborah Anderson Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics UC Berkeley
