Re: Unicode puzzles

On 02/24/2014 09:14 AM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> 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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lol, caught!