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May. 5th, 2008 05:47 pm
roadrunnertwice: Me looking up at the camera, wearing big headphones and a striped shirt. (Out of the bathroom)
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Happy Temporary-Victory-Over-the-French Day!

EDIT: Uptick in native Unicode webpages! (via Daring Fireball) Good. I look forward to the deprecation and eventual destruction of all those obnoxiously indistinguishable-yet-incompatible Western European charsets. It shall be our war chant: UTF-8! UTF-8! UTF-8!

(Explication: If you've ever opened a document only to find all the quote marks replaced by Ò's for no good reason, you have a dog in this fight.)

EDIT: Special preview of Things I Read in May: Go read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.
  • Current Location: Let's nuke that bridge we torched
  • Current Music: Propagandhi—And We Thought That Nation States Were A Bad Idea
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Date: 2008-05-06 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyladia.livejournal.com
I suppose you keep up with these things and probably already know, but I guess Krupp is leaving the high school and Mr. Bergh is collecting letters from former students for him.
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Date: 2008-05-06 03:21 am (UTC)
roadrunnertwice: Me looking up at the camera, wearing big headphones and a striped shirt. (Default)
From: [personal profile] roadrunnertwice
I do know, but I haven't done anything about it yet. I am slow.
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Date: 2008-05-06 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyladia.livejournal.com
I probably won't at all because I am already an overly emotional person, and so anything I think of to say sounds really cheesy and stupid.
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Date: 2008-05-06 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gyladia.livejournal.com
I don't understand that page at all, and it's one of those things where my eyes want to stop reading before my brain does, but I have seen the angry eyes (Ò) on other pages. A lot of online classes have teachers who do something weird because every time I have to look at a syllabus or print out notes I see that.

But You know what I really wish someone could look into? A way for me to be able to hit Crtl F on a real book (like the anthropology one in front of me) so I could find all the vocab words that aren't listed in the back sometime before midnight. That would be really great.
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Date: 2008-05-06 04:36 am (UTC)
roadrunnertwice: Me looking up at the camera, wearing big headphones and a striped shirt. (THE SHITBOX WENT TITS UP)
From: [personal profile] roadrunnertwice
Charset mismatch exacerbated by uninformed use of Fancy Quotemarks. It sneaks in when you round-trip documents between Macintosh MS Word, Windows MS Word, the Web, and back again. And it wouldn't be a problem if people would just write all their programs to use UTF-8.

I've had a hate-on for the Òs for like 8 years. Users shouldn't have to be experts just to see other people's stupid quotemarks.
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