[New readers: Please ignore the writings of this unbalanced individual, who is well-known for posting inappropriate and inflammatory material on many different newsgroups and mailing lists].
Xah Lee wrote: > the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet > > Xah Lee, 20051101 > > There's a bunch of confusions about the display of non-ascii characters > such as the bullet "•". These confusions are justifiable, because the > underlying stuff is technology, computing technologies, are in a laymen > sense, extremely complex. > > In order to be able to type the bullet char, post it to a newsgroup, > and receive the posted material, and have that bullet displayed as a > bullet as it was intended, truly involves the availability of several > technologies, on the sender's computer, on the receiver's computer, and > thru the network that received the posting, and the network the post > was retrieved, as well as the configuration of the sender and poster's > computers. And, cross your fingers, that all things should go well, but > unfortunately, because the fucking asses criminals such as Larry Wall > in the computing industry, mostly likely things will not go well. > > [Disclaimer: all mention of real persons are opinion only.] > [... etc., etc.] -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
