Re: Unicode puzzles

Walter Alejandro Iglesias <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:41:16AM -0500, Dan wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 06:15 AM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
>> How Real Men Name Files
>> -----------------------
>>
>> For general rule your files should be portable (Lennart sad).  OS
>> compatibility, software compatibility (backward compatibility), file
>> system type compatibility.  Your files must survive traveling across
>> different protocols in the net, ETC.  Then:
>>
>>    - Do not use characters that could be problematic for software.  For
>>      example non ASCII characters.
>>
>>    - Do not use characters that could be meaningful for programing
>>      languages.  For example*spaces*, brackets, colons, etc.
>>
>> For example, use "Documents" instead of "My Documents" (even MSWindows
>> corrected that idiocy on Windows 7).
>>
>> In practice.  Name your files using:
>>
>>    1. ASCII characters (man ascii).
>>
>>    2. Just letters, numbers, and a casual hyphen.  Start with a letter.
>>
>>
>> Not so problematic but a good convention (some Unix consoles has no
>> color support and you may think that is a bad thing; you're wrong):
>>
>>    3. Start files with lower case and directories with upper case.
>>
>>
>> Educate others in this subject any time you have the chance.
>> Remember, prevention is better than cure.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gentleman.  Thanks for your attention and have a good day.
>>
>>
>>
>> 	Walter
> Perfect :)


Glad to see you understand.


Now, if you use Slackware surely you have Pan installed.  Please, run it using
i.e. gmane news server and see how your message looks in a plain text
interface.

My next educational post will be about how to send email ;-).


	Walter
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