From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing [X] by something else
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:06:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k43s3dci.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jh35pn$1fa$2@dough.gmane.org> (Allen S. Rout's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:24:07 -0500")
"Allen S. Rout" <asr@ufl.edu> writes:
> On 02/09/2012 11:54 AM, François Pinard wrote:
>> Nicolas Goaziou<n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> It may be a bit ugly at times, but don't we all feel at home with
>>> plain text?
>>
>> We surely do. Yet, now that we all swim within Unicode -- aren't we?
> Nope.
:-). Come on! UTF-8 has been *designed* so all Americans could rightly
claim, out of the box, that they comply and are using it when they
write, without having to change the slightest iota in their work habits.
Reading UTF-8? No problem either, given it has been written by other
Americans. UTF-8 from other countries? Oh! That's another story... :-)
François
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-12 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-08 17:04 Changing [X] by something else François Pinard
2012-02-08 17:16 ` suvayu ali
2012-02-08 17:29 ` François Pinard
2012-02-08 17:40 ` suvayu ali
2012-02-09 16:26 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-02-09 16:54 ` François Pinard
2012-02-10 13:24 ` Allen S. Rout
2012-02-12 4:06 ` François Pinard [this message]
2012-02-10 13:23 ` Allen S. Rout
2012-02-11 9:40 ` Reiner Steib
2012-02-11 15:39 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-11 19:10 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-11 19:18 ` Jon Miller
2012-02-12 2:44 ` François Pinard
2012-02-12 6:19 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-12 14:12 ` François Pinard
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