On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:04:33 +0000 Peter Constable <peter...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> The questions are framed around this hypothetical scenario: Suppose I > were to post a message to the list describing some experiment I did, > creating a Web page containing (say) some Latin characters - not > obscure, just-added-in-Unicode-8 characters, but ones that have been > in the standard for some time; that my process for creating the file > was to use (say) Notepad and entering HTML numeric character > references; and that my findings were that it worked. > > Q1: Would you find that to be an interesting post that adds makes > your participation in the list more useful, or would you find it a > noisy distraction that reduces the value you get from participating > in the list? Q1. It would tell me nothing I didn't know. That is because the usual expectation is now that Unicode works, so failures are of greater interest. Of course, news that significant hold-outs against Unicode had seen the light would also be useful. On the other hand, some people might respond with useful alternative tricks for arbitrary text entry - keyboards that will take hex input as an exceptional case (e.g. m17n Unicode for BMP on many Linux systems), alt/x in Word, a reminder of the existence of MSKLC and Tavultesoft keyman for making one's own keyboards and so on, and it could become a useful thread for some lurkers. > Q2: If I were to send messages along that line on a regular basis, > would that add value to your participation in the list, or reduce it? If nothing useful happened, it would probably reduce, but a hint of the week thread would be tolerable and excused by the thought that it may be helping some people. And then I would probably learn something useful, and my attitude would become more favourable. > Q3: If 50 people (still a small portion of the list membership) were > to send messages along that line on a regular basis, would that add > value to your participation in the list, or reduce it? They'd probably soon run out of new, useful or interesting things to say. So, what has become of Sarasvati? She hasn't scolded list participants for a long time. Richard.