What is this:
I can't remember where I got it. Google Lens brought back many things with similarities, all with rounded plastic, almost all the same color of red, but functionally different, assuming this has a function.
Jim Joyce wrote on 6/26/2024 2:57 PM:
In this day and age, no one can program Agent to display Unicode characters properly. Why? Are Agent's programmers still using Fortran and punch cards?
I don't know if I'd say 'no one'. Someone, (Ralph Fox, perhaps?), recently pointed to a step by step procedure where anyone can add full Unicode support to Agent. I haven't bothered because it's not something I need, but 'anyone' is sort of the opposite of 'no one'.
I don't need it either. Sometimes when I copy in something from a webpage, some characters don't look right, quotation marks or something, but I figure everyone will still undersnd.
Some people insist on posting in html (I think it's html. It comes off a one big blob of letters) which is a violation of netiquette, and either I ignore what they post, or I click reply (but not often because they've annoyed me)and suddently its legible.
I'm goingto modify the subject line and I hope that doesn't mess up anyone's threading. But frankly, it probahbly won't hurt others or help me, won't get this thread down to the bottom of the list because I think once it finds a thread based on subject line, it just uses References after that.
micky wrote on 6/27/2024 12:48 AM:
It's your reluctance to adapt to new changes, not "netiquette". Riding horse-drawn wagons on modern roads instead of automobiles is not "etiquette"; it's bonehead stupidity. ASCII uses a single byte to represent a maximum of (2^8 = 256) unique characters, barely enough for lower-case and upper-case English alphabet plus some symbols. Unicode is a two-byte (2^16 = 65,536) character set which can represent the all languages in the world plus lots of special symbols.
People live in different countries all over the world and use different English text encoding systems like Unicode, Western, Windows/ISO. If what you read was mumble-jumble but would become legible when you click reply, that means the displayed message was converted to your preferred text encoding system for outgoing messages. You could've gone to change the text-encoding method for your displayed messages instead to see what those garbled characters really were. Most modern, sensible people use Unicode to display and compose messages these days. The world is passing you by.
Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are a-Changin'
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