Re: Seriation

Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

On 01/02/2025 13:05, Stefan Claas wrote:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 01/02/2025 12:19, Stefan Claas wrote:

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This should be not
the case IMHO.

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It is of course your prerogative to disagree with my design, but it is
likewise my prerogative to prefer a deliberately ASCII-only design for
use in an ASCII environment such as Usenet.

Well, maybe only a very few US hosting service are ASCII only in 2025,
but we should ignore them, as Eurasiens ... ;-) I added also the british
pound sign and Euro symbol. :-)

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The NNTP RFC says: "Commands and replies are composed of characters from

s/The/An obsolete/

the ASCII character set.  When the transport service provides an 8-bit byte
(octet) transmission channel, each 7-bit character is transmitted right
justified in an octet with the high order bit cleared to zero."

Another says "The character set for all NNTP commands is UTF-8" and that
one is the one that most current servers adhere to.  It OK to pick and
choose ones sources, but you should not suggest that your opinion is the
only one supported by the RFCs, and you should certainly not suggest
that what you quote is authoritative.

...which makes UTF-8 characters contra regs.

It means that UTF-8 characters contravene an obsolete regulation.

We live for decades in UTF-8 times, as Eurasiens, mind you. :-)

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"We" meaning people to whom it applies. Clearly they include you. I live in
simpler and happier times.

It is certainly simpler to have a more restricted character set, but I
was brought up by parents and teachers who would consider being forced
to write the modern forms of, for example, "facade", "nee" and "Zoe" an
abomination.  I still prefer to write them the traditional way (though I
have not done so here so you can see what I am talking about).

Quite apart from what spellings one prefers, there are all sorts of
English subjects like writing about phonetics or indicating stress in
poetry where, for me, the simpler times were not happier ones.

--
Ben.