Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
2008/4/26 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>:
> My native spoken language is American English. (Saying it that way
> because lately I more typically interact with computers via the
> keyboard using the C and Ruby and POSIX shell languages. :-)
>
> But I prefer UTF-8. Why? Because typeset English != US-ASCII. For
> example in written English one may use left and right quotation marks.
> These are not available in the us-ascii encoding. Additionally in the
> English business world there is a high rate of occurrance of trademark
> symbols and copyright symbols and other characters not present in
> us-ascii. All of those work very well with UTF-8.
>
> As an English only speaker I get great benefit from UTF-8.
>
+5 Informative
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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