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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]
Message-ID: <87o6rsbp2y.fsf@example.invalid> (raw)
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 */

  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-02 20:02 UTC|newest]

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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