From: ahk@chinet.com
Kenny McCormack wrote:
>A Friend wrote:
>>Famous Deaths wrote:
>>>2020 - Jrn Donner, Finnish director (Anna, Tenderness), dies at 86
>>Again, usenet uses a limited character set, so Donner's given name
>>can't be rendered correctly. It is Jorn with a umlaut over the "o."
>Isn't that really a function of both the original poster's choice of news
>software and also that of the readers (i.e, people like you and me) ?
No.
The "original poster" isn't a person at all. It's a bot, a cron job set
up to shill a Web site. It's advertising. A Friend knows this.
Oddly, it's using IBM 437 character set, the very old "extended ASCII"
character set. This is the character set that included box-drawing
characters. It's not using UTF-8.
A Friend has his newsreader set for UTF-8. He doesn't have an automatic
process to change the translation from one character set to another. He
can't render it correctly due to the character set mismatch.
My terminal emulation doesn't include a translation for IBM 437. When I
have a character set mismatch, I can change the translation manually in
the terminal emulation. But I can't automatically change the translation
to something else.
>Personally, I wish that people *would* stick to 7 bit ASCII when posting to
>Usenet, but I think that ship has sailed. Over the years, I have written
>many scripts to clean up the junk (as I see it, although others will
>disagree) in Usenet postings, caused by people posting stuff in other than
>7 bit ASCII. I've learned to live with it, and accept it as the cost of
>the March of Progress.
This isn't progress. This is a shill that created a bot to advertise
a Web site that needs to be ignored by all the regulars in this newsgroup.
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