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  • Re: YouTube Videos

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Monday, January 19, 2026 05:55:47
    On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:05:15 -0500, Maria Sophia wrote:

    Once even one non ASCII character slips in, the script that guesses
    the encoding gets confused and decides the whole post must be Big5
    or whatever.

    The native Windows character set is a kind of a weird one: it?s called ?UTF-16?, and it?s not something that anybody in their right mind
    would design software to use. But I think that?s the fundamental root
    of the problem.

    Windows ended up with it for historical reasons, and it?s too late to
    change now. But I suppose the occasional hiccup like this is
    considered a small price to pay for all the benefits that the
    Microsoft OS brings you ...

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Monday, January 19, 2026 04:13:39
    On Mon, 1/19/2026 12:55 AM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:05:15 -0500, Maria Sophia wrote:

    Once even one non ASCII character slips in, the script that guesses
    the encoding gets confused and decides the whole post must be Big5
    or whatever.

    The native Windows character set is a kind of a weird one: it?s called ?UTF-16?, and it?s not something that anybody in their right mind
    would design software to use. But I think that?s the fundamental root
    of the problem.

    Windows ended up with it for historical reasons, and it?s too late to
    change now. But I suppose the occasional hiccup like this is
    considered a small price to pay for all the benefits that the
    Microsoft OS brings you ...


    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/double-byte-character-sets

    "Note

    New Windows applications should use Unicode to avoid the inconsistencies
    of varied code pages and for ease of localization"

    "Each DBCS code page supports different characters,
    but no page supports the full breadth of characters provided by Unicode."

    More info here.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/unicode

    Anything you could want is in there, and you have to decide
    where your best interests lay.

    Neat. When I pasted this into Thunderbird (decomposed form) o??
    it took three backspaces to remove it -) Each backspace, removing
    a portion of the decoration.

    This stuff is way way past my pay scale. Who needs Emoji when you
    can have this much fun.

    Paul


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 00:10:33
    On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:13:39 -0500, Paul wrote:

    On Mon, 1/19/2026 12:55 AM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

    The native Windows character set is a kind of a weird one: it?s called
    ?UTF-16?, and it?s not something that anybody in their right mind
    would design software to use. But I think that?s the fundamental root
    of the problem.

    "Note

    New Windows applications should use Unicode to avoid the inconsistencies
    of varied code pages and for ease of localization"

    ... [etc]

    UTF-16 *is* Unicode. None of that is disagreeing with what I?m saying.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)