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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:00:18 +0200
From:      Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject:   Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]
Message-ID:  <20220623100018.4d8ba804@archlinux>
In-Reply-To: <20220623085942.ee7b8f30.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 08:59:42 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>You know you can use a lof of "lookalikes" as UTF-8 knows a lot
>of whitespace cheracters, hyphens and dashes, and so on, so it
>should be used only in cases where (a) US-ASCII doesn't provide
>the required symbol, or (b) the UTF-8 symbol is preferred for a
>valid reason.

Forwards and backwards:

e.g. forwards:

"Kemal Atat=C3=BCrk [snip] also introduced the Latin-based Turkish alphabet
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet ], replacing the old
Ottoman Turkish alphabet
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet ]. [snip]" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat=C3=BCrk )

The Ottoman Turkish alphabet is probably way more aesthetic, but
completely unsuitable for printing.

e.g. backwards:

http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_sex_symbols.html

How can we offer a job without a complete list of gender identity
related things (sex relation, marriage status). This is asking either
for UTF code or for ASCII art.

"IT System Administrator Server / Storage (=F0=9F=91=AC/=F0=9F=91=AD/=E2=9A=
=B2/=E2=9A=A7/[snip]/=E2=9A=AF/=E2=9A=AD/=E2=9A=AE)"

the alternative would be

"IT System Administrator Server / Storage"

without mentioning any gender identity related things at all, but
probably way too many people feel offended by not mentioning anything
gender identity related at all ;) ( =F0=9F=98=89 ).







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