[rescue] what can you do with an Apple Quadro 840AV

Chris Hanson cmhanson at eschatologist.net
Tue Mar 27 20:32:53 CDT 2018


On Mar 27, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> In article <1459A8E2-31F3-4775-9FF3-3FCFB74AF0C1 at eschatologist.net>,
>    Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> writes:
>
>> UTF-8 encoded Unicode is, in fact, suitable for everyone these days.
>>
>> The 7-bit ASCII era was over decades ago.
>
> ...but this is gratuitous UTF-8 here.  You're not conveying anything
> that isn't perfectly representable as 7-bit ASCII.  It's not as if
> you're posting replies in Mandarin.

This stuff worked just fine on the Andrew Message System and NeXT nearly
thirty years ago.

Ibm not going to worry about disabling the automatic use of proper
typography on the systems I use just for one broken mailing list.

  -- Chris


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