From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,699cc914522aa7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization References: <_wrvh.30646$E02.12547@newsb.telia.net> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:16:27 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N2/3RiYAyK8062+Gh7YTlgfse4w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.212.247 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1170533488 88.72.212.247 (3 Feb 2007 21:11:28 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8917 Date: 2007-02-03T21:16:27+01:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson 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. :-)