Re: Usenet characters
MC PRTK <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | news.groups,alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet |
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On 03/03/24 7:36 am, [email protected] wrote: > > > It is ASCII ! usenet originally is TEXT ASCII CHR > > > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:58:09 GMT, vallor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 14:47:24 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]> >> wrote in <[email protected]>: >> >>> On text Usenet, we post in plain text, and when writing in English, we use >>> ASCII. Why? ASCII is universal. ASCII is never mistranslated by anybody's >>> newsreader. >> >> ("TINW". ;) (But this post is only 7-bit.) >> >> I'm not sure, but there might be an RFC expanding on that >> definition to include usage of UTF-8...and indeed, >> one GNKSAI newsreader (pan) includes the >> ability to insert an emoji in its editor. >> >> Wrote about this back in March in alt.fan.usenet: >> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> >> One can also use emojis on an xfce4-terminal. I think most modern terminals >> will render them. The Linux tool "gnome characters" is helpful for >> copying emojis to the clipboard, if your newsreader is older. > > - > telnet://gallaxial.com BBS > irc://gallaxial.com IRC With Service > http://gallaxial.com:33333 Old Fashon torrent Tracker > ftp://gallaxial.com FTP server fidonet files +++ > - That is a very Anglo-centric perspective. ASCII is fine, but UTF-8 support is necessary, not just for emojis, but other character sets and languages as well.