Re: Alignment

"Peter J. Holzer" wrote:
Keith Thompson <kst-u@xxxxxxx> wrote:
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

.... snip ...

What in the devil is a 'GAFdel' number. That is very roughly the
appearence here of that expresssion.

In my newsreader, it looked like "Godel", with an umlaut (two dots)
over the 'o', as it was intended to. The article used a UTF-8
encoding, which of course not all newsreaders are going to recognize.
Since Peter is posting from Austria (.at), I'm sure it's easy to
forget that not everyone can cope with umlauts.

I don't forget that, but I prefer correct spelling over indulging
users of outdated software. MIME is now 15 years old, UTF-8 not much
younger, so I do think that if somebody still uses software which
doesn't support them, it's their problem and not the the problem of
everybody else. (Incidentally, the newsreader I use doesn't implement
MIME completely, either. But if I come across a posting which uses a
missing feature (e.g. multipart), then I'll ignore the posting or fix it
manually[0] - I won't complain to the poster).

I asked for information. I don't recall complaining.

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