Re: PLAIN TEXT!!! was Re: Babel Text in Durin

From: "Padraic Brown" <agricola@...>

> I don't want to beat the issue too much, but this is a plain text
> medium. While I like a good word puzzle as much as the next guy,
> I don't much care for trying to sort out unicode or html garbage
> in people's posts. I simply delete unread any post that has too
> much unreadable text; but I wanted to take a moment to kindly ask
> all those who post language samples: _please_ post in ASCII here!
> If you are using nonascii characters, peculiar fonts, colours,
> html, or native scripts, _please_ put them on a website somewhere
> and give us the url. [And _then_ post a version in plain text
> here for universal discussion and comment!]
Does that mean ASCII as in 7-bit, or is Latin-1 okay? (I know in 1997 it
wasn't, but that was quite a long time ago.)

~DannY~


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