Re: Tutorial: Notepad++ shortcuts.xml macro converts unicode to the 95-keyboard ASCII characters

Herbert Kleebauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/31/2025 7:21 PM, Marian wrote:
> 
>> Bear in mind there is much more than just Unicode characters in
>> pasted web-page text as Unicode is only the container; the real trouble
>> comes from the variety of characters inside it such as zero-width
>> spaces & joiners, directional control characters, soft hyphens, etc.
> 
> I don't understand the problem. In these days, (nearly) any web page
> and usnet posting uses utf-8 character encoding. Also your posting
> uses utf-8;
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX)
> (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2
> 
> 
> There shouldn't be any problem when you copy text from a web page and
> past it into an usnet posting. There is only a problem if you
> convert the utf-8 text into "something else" and then paste it
> into the posting. You don't solve a problem, you create a problem.

100% accurate. This is Donald's MO.