Re: Seriation

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.

>
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. :-)

The NNTP RFC says: "Commands and replies are composed of characters from 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."
...which makes UTF-8 characters contra regs.
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 We live for decades in UTF-8 times, as Eurasiens, mind you. :-)

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

 Well, anyways, I hope you don't mind a SCOS3 version

Of course I don't mind. That's freedom for you...

, while people
in the U.S. and UK can stick with your original v2 design. SCOS was
anyways cracked and floating around in Bitmessage chans, in various
Programming Languages. I thought a little improvement for us litte
Sauerkrauts (Marcel ,Thomas and me etc.) would not hurt. :-)

It's not actually an improvement. ;-)
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