From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 202x; 2022; and 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling)
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:02:13 -0700 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: afe2658a-67c8-c99a-1d59-59b4be2e2243@irrt.De
Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> writes:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, Keith Thompson wrote:
> "> I quote Usenet articles in a way which does not endear me to
>> persons. Not everyone reacts in the same way. OC Systems asked me how
>> do I draw those boxes.
>
> Why do you do that?"
>
> Such a quoting style is correlated with a possibly misguided
> perception that a language does not have a quotation mark at the
> beginning of each intermediate line. Indications that this perception
> is misguided are English documents which are supposedly from decades
> before Ada 83 which do
> indeed show a "“" (i.e. an English opening quotation mark) at the
> beginning of each intermediate line.
[...]
I urge you to adopt the universal Usenet convention of preceding
quoted text from previous articles with "> ". See every other
followup article in this and other newsgroups for examples.
Everyone understands it, virtually everyone but you uses it, and
(almost?) every Usenet client fully supports it. I can think of no
reason not to use it, unless your goal is for your posts to stand
out from others in a rather unpleasant way.
I mentioned before that your scheme seemed like a lot of effort.
In fact the level of effort is irrelevant.
You will of course do what you want, and I don't intend to discuss
it further.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-20 21:38 Ada 2012 and Unicode package (UTF-nn encodings handling) Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-20 21:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 6:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-21 7:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-21 8:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-22 18:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-22 19:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-22 20:40 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-23 10:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-23 22:28 ` Randy Brukardt
2025-08-31 17:39 ` Ada 202x; 2022; and " Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester
2025-08-31 21:23 ` Kevin Chadwick
2025-08-31 21:27 ` Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester
2025-09-02 16:01 ` Alex // nytpu
2025-09-02 17:40 ` Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester
2025-09-02 18:49 ` Keith Thompson
2025-09-02 19:27 ` Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester
2025-09-02 20:02 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2025-09-02 17:42 ` Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester
2025-09-02 19:15 ` Alex // nytpu
2025-09-02 19:50 ` Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester
2025-09-02 18:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2025-09-02 19:13 ` Alex // nytpu
2025-09-02 22:56 ` Lawrence D’Oliveiro
2025-09-03 0:20 ` Alex // nytpu
2025-09-03 4:10 ` Lawrence D’Oliveiro
2025-09-03 17:25 ` Alex // nytpu
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