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   Re: Microsoft might change the cadence o   
   22 Jul 20 23:20:04   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article , Jonathan N. Little   
    wrote:   
      
   > >>>>>> Neither do bullet points.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> But I disagree with that. What's wrong with bullet points?   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>> They can be quite effectively done with a lower-case letter O   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> o like this.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> I've also seen people using a full stop (US: period; actually, probably   
   > >>>> best just to say a dot)   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> . like this,   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> but I think in most fonts the o is better.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> even better is using an actual bullet point character.   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >> Well if you are being true to Usenet it should be only US ASCII   
   > >> characters and there are no bullet point characters in ASCII < 127.   
   > >   
   > > unicode replaced ascii long ago in all modern operating systems.   
   > >   
   >   
   > We are not talking about OSes, we are talking about Usenet.   
      
   which is is accessed via a newsreader app running an os.   
      
   unicode is the current standard, which supports all characters. ascii   
   does not.   
      
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