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.
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