On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Excuse me? Typography as we know it today exists since Gutenberg;
> even the history of commercial font foundries goes back a century
> before the typewriter. Further, a lot of the rules of this
> relatively new form of typograhpy borrow from prior conven
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:
> OK: in Smalltalk, Postscript, Lisp, Forth, and most other languages that
> are aggressively introspective and reflective, control structures are
> defined in terms of operations that can be performed within the language.
>
> They may be implemented in t
On 10/19/05, Earle Martin wrote:
Which reminds me. Some people do "quoted" text ``like this''. Which is one
of the most moronic things in the world. It crops up a lot in UNIX-type
system documentation, which says a lot.
And in pod2html output. I have a vim macro specially designed to fix those
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Earle Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:55:14PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > Meanwhile everyone is using apostrophes as straight quote marks.
>
> Which reminds me. Some people do "quoted" text ``like this''. Which is
> one of the most moronic things in the world.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:55:14PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Meanwhile everyone is using apostrophes as straight quote marks.
Which reminds me. Some people do "quoted" text ``like this''. Which is one
of the most moronic things in the world. It crops up a lot in UNIX-type
system documentation,
Click on a link to hear radio. Popup:
"Abacast streaming media software currenly [sic]
only supports the Windows Operating System.
To manually connect to the stream, open
http://www.abacast.com/media/pls/filmmusic/filmmusic-bb-64.pls
with your favourite asx file interpreter."
Points:
1) It's not
* demerphq [2005-10-19 10:40]:
> What do you mean by "reliably toggle case"? My understanding is
> that while western european alphabets tend to have two cases,
> many languages have more than two. Thus I believe it is
> actually meaningless to "toggle case" in an internationalized
> context.
And
On 10/17/05, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Software configured to use anything other than UTF-8 (or, at the
> > very least another UTF-*) is hateful. I can???t wait until
> > single-byte charsets are a thing of the past.
> Variable width character sets are themselves hateful. I'll go further
> and
On 10/19/05, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:00:40PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > If that's the only thing about the Unicode charset that you find hateful
> > then you've not looked at it very hard.
> I find especially hateful people who whine about Unicode.
I think most
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* Patrick Carr [2005-10-18 23:40]:
>On Oct 17, 2005, at 9:48 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>>* Rhesa Rozendaal [2005-10-18 02:25]:
>>
>>>If that can handle thin
* Luke Kanies [2005-10-19 00:10]:
> All typography is a relatively recent invention; hell,
> punctuation itself isn't all that old, relative to typewriters,
Excuse me? Typography as we know it today exists since Gutenberg;
even the history of commercial font foundries goes back a century
before t
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:00:40PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > If that's the only thing about the Unicode charset that you find hateful
> > then you've not looked at it very hard.
> I find especially hateful people who whine about Unicode.
I think most people here think that Unicode is a G
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> If it was the terminal then the character would show up screwy,
> but it wouldn't get mangled in your reply.
Okay, I'll have to trust you on that.
> What I'm using *is* a smart quote, I just think that's a stupid
> name.
>
> The straight quotes were a t
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