Re: Great SWT Program

On Sep 11, 9:43 am, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Even more to the point, you know that everyone will be able to read ASCII
correctly. ("7-bit ASCII" is, by the way, a bit redundant; ASCII is a 7-bit
encoding.) Even if there are standards for representing other encodings,
not all newsreaders support them, so using them means failing to communicate
with some fraction of your audience.

In practise, it's not likely that severe. They'll see some garbles
where accented characters were used, and that's about it. Ugly, but
usually comprehensible anyway.

(Some people, inexplicably to me,
enjoy that, like the idiots who start their posts with "begin", so OE users
can't easily read them.)

I find that the people that "enjoy that" (i.e. deliberately making
their posts hard to understand for a fraction of the audience) do it
with gratuitous obscurity, especially unusual acronyms, and then start
a flamewar if asked to clarify what they said (i.e. to spell it out in
plain English). :P

Why would use of the word "begin" garble a post in OE? That's passing
strange -- bugs aren't usually highly specific to one English word.
Then again, it *is* Microsoft software we're discussing...



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