Re: Wasteful internationalization


Björn Persson <spam-away@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Markus E Leypold wrote:

Did he force you? Or did he just inform you that he can't see the 'Pi'
and probably won't see it ever. You can ignore his information, I
think.

Of course he has no means to literally force me. He's trying to *persuade*
everyone to go back to ASCII. It was not just information. He stated
explicitly that everyone should use ASCII.


Yes. And I have to support him there. I think this is actually a good
idea. We're writing english here, you might notice, so I fail to see
any reason to write umlauts, expect in personal names. For this there
are transscription. Or would you, if someone from China partcipated
here, write his/her name in chinese letters every time you address the
person in the text?

Regards -- Markus


PS:

His first post looked like he didn't know why he didn't see the right
character, and I tried to be helpful, not remembering that it was Larry who
complained to a newbie who used UTF-8 in May last year. I'll probably

Newbie. Exactly.

ignore him next time he complains to me, but I may intervene if he attacks
newbies again.

BTW: I have Gnus on a rather current Linux system. I couldn't see the
Pi, too. This happens sometimes and do you know what: I don't read
posts I can't display or decode (same with web pages).

I do the same. I don't have Flash installed (because I can't stand web pages
full of animated ads). There have been a few Flash applets that were
important enough that I installed the Flash plugin, watched the applet and
removed Flash again, but when people send out links to funny clips on
Youtube and the like I usually don't watch them, thinking they probably
aren't worth all the trouble. But I don't complain about it! Especially not
i public forums. I have made my choice and I accept the consequences. I
don't try to make people stop posting Flash clips just because watching
them is too much trouble for me.

You will try to stop them as soon as your online banking is beginning
to be tied to flash. :-)
.

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