Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (158 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/02/12 03:52, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012/02/08 09:13 (GMT-0500) Patrick Shanahan composed:
>
> > Felix Miata composed:
>
> > >  The problem is some old software simply does not have a suitable
> > >  replacement. What ain't broke don't need fixin, which is the DOS 
> > > software I
> > >  use constantly, and certainly more than any other software. It works
> > >  wonderfully in eCS (Warp 4 progeny), poorly elsewhere, and is here 
> > > the #1
> > >  criteria for choice of primary DTE. The OS/DTE installation I'm 
> > > using here
> > >  to write this (as well as run DOS software) is about 10 years old, 
> > > living
> > >  through about 4 generations of motherboard/system upgrades - without
> > >  breaking. Whatever the charset availability was that decade ago was 
> > > what it
> > >  was, and couldn't and can't be helped short of a new installation 
> > > of a newer
> > >  version (which is now about 9 months old), a sleeping dog I'm not 
> > > about to
> > >  kick.
>
> > BUT, it *was* that "sleeping dog" that raised the point (would better 
> > have
> > been a pint) about the
> > <quote>
> >    I still have to figure out what you wrote, since here are displayed
> >    non-US-ASCII characters amongst relevant parts of what you wrote.
> > </quote>
>
> > and now complains that his dos/os/2 software WILL NOT be changed as 
> > it was
> > good enough then and is good enough now.
>
> > If you are not interested in correcting *your* software to properly
> > display properly formatted text, why did you raise the point, for the 
> > sake
> > of argument?
>
> I really don't know what you're on about. I don't use ancient DOS 
> software to read email. As web browsers use the charset specified by 
> the web page,

I don't think that this is quite correct. You can specify in a browser 
the character set YOU want to use (Western, UTF, etc); and you can allow 
or disallow a web site to use its fonts and not the ones you  have 
selected in your browser. At least this is so in Firefox.

> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2012-02/msg00059.html shows me 
> what Sven originally wrote, so I don't need to disrupt SM setup to 
> figure out what characters he found it necessary to use that weren't 
> derived from simple keystroking. SM's default config can display every 
> displayable plain or shifted English keyboard key, which seems ought 
> to be at least an adequate if not optimal config for an English 
> mailing list.

BC

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