Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
On 9/7/2011 11:38 AM, Keith Whaley wrote:
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
On 9/7/2011 3:14 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
Check for Updates
which comes out on my screen as [0093]Check for Updates[0094].
Is there a recommended Windows monospaced font which can
correctly handle these paired quotes and other less common
Unicode characters ?
Actually its broken on my screen as well, (a bad artifact from my web
post). I usually avoid unicode if I can help it in text/plain
e-mails/news postings unless there is a strong need.
It could be an issue on my end, or with our defaults in news, not sure
which. But I can assure you I don't plan on sending it like that again.
[snipped]
Now you tell me you strongly avoid Unicode. I'd really like to know why.
Also, what encoding scheme DO you use in lieu of?
Mostly just a personal preference. My general (US based) contacts that I
know personally have typically not had good results when I send unicode
chars. Also, my keyboard does not make it easy for me to type unicode
chars.
I usually stick with ASCII in e-mails for that reason. Also I'm not too
familiar with dealing with encoding schemes as I would like. When I do
chose an encoding scheme, I usually choose UTF-8 (BOM or not depends on
context).
I have nothing against unicode, just that I experience too much font
issues when *I* use it outside of dev. These issues are usually
avoidable easily by simply not using Unicode.
Hope that helps
It does. I'll add one more comment.
In the site: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
The following quote appears:
"The UTF-8 encoding defined in ISO 10646-1:2000 Annex D and also
described in RFC 3629 as well as section 3.9 of the Unicode 4.0 standard
does not have these problems. It is clearly the way to go for using
Unicode under Unix-style operating systems."
My guess is that since I work with Mac OS 10, which is UNIX based,
that's why I find it compatible for my use.
I'll also guess you use a Windows OS, and that is not UNIX based, which
is one reason why you dislike how UTF-8 treats your efforts.
Not sure, but possible...
keith
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