Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:33:04 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, postmaster@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.] Message-ID: <20220623063304.GB59423@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20220623060320.aad6a631.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAD2Ti2_GFxRzAjgSwf55tC9c3jSUAzeR42xzhUgG87QZ7JT5_g@mail.gmail.com> <20220623030118.GA59423@eureka.lemis.com> <20220623060320.aad6a631.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 23 June 2022 at 6:03:20 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:01:18 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> [...] I personally find that prepending >> ">" to the original message works best. Leaving white space after >> the "> " and leave empty lines between your text and the original >> text both make the result more readable. > > Prepending what? After the what? Seems there is a charset mismatch. Ugh. Yes, you're right. > Or is it just my MUA displaying nonsense (which would be new to me). > Oh the joy of UTF-8... ;-) What happened here was that I copied the text from the (UTF-8) web page into a text that was (I think) implicitly ISO 8859. My copy of the message also shows this mutilation. But strangely, replying to this message, I find that the text has been automatically recovered. It doesn't stay that way: in the editor it looks correct, but the MUA displays it incorrectly. The issue was with the quotation marks, and it should look correct above now. > Otherwise, I completely agree to the concept that form and content > should match, and that form can help a lot to improve readability > and accessibility of information in general. And people shouldn't make the kind of mess that I managed to make :-( Does anybody have an opinion on character set recommendations? I think we should ask for UTF-8 if at all possible. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmK0CSAACgkQIubykFB6QiODDACfVJqzU9JuginmRhxAPW8X9wiX BZgAnAiCJmD3EXEykp7IDy06Rq0JR4NY =yNKB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h--
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