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Convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes on Windows?
Anton Shepelev wrote in
news:20171029235014.1d1e2c558407d4f86374b7a2@gmail .com: Mike S: I'd be very happy to have that, thank you for the generous offer, am already using Notepad++. (My return email address in this group works.) Here you are (or here it is): freeshell.de/~antonius/file_host/Nightfall.zip The archive contains the scheme you saw in the screenshot and a futher working draft of it. Thanks here as well. |
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Convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes onWindows?
Whiskers to Mayayana:
You keep complicating things unnecessarily. ASCII is valid UTF-8. UTF-8 is not a character set. It's an encoding method. It defines how byte values represent characters. You're the one complicating things, by trying to deny that UTF-8 is the global standard character set. Which it is. UTF-8 is not the same as 'Uni- code', although the terms are often interchanged erroneously. I think I understand what Mayayana means. ASCII is just a character set because it is defined as a sim- ple mapping of each character to a one-byte value. Reading such text is a trivial task. UTF-8, however, is more compicated than that. It is an encoding method where each character is encoded as a variable-base number. The reading algorithm is harder to implement, and the internal storage of such characters is more cumbersome: you either waste memory by storing every character as a four-byte value or implement convoluted and inefficient algo- rithms to work with the underlying variable-base stream. I prefer ASCII for its simplicity. All classic typesetting systems work with ASCII sources. For example, \(:u represents u with umlaut in Troff, which I used to print the bar-joke collection. Windows-1251 is obsolete. Why do you think so? It is used extensively in Runet, and I store my text files in this encoding. 8-bit character sets are perfectly adequate for the combinations of English and any other language with fewer than 128 graphemes. It's also Microsoft-only. It is so by birth alone. Since classic and modern editors tend to support both 1251 and KOI8-R, the problem of incompatibility is virtually non-exis- tant, and, when required, may be solved through widely available conversion utilities, such as iconv. Futhermore, the encoding is so simple that everyone can write a trivial conversion program. Where do you get the idea that there's software that can render UTF-8 but not ANSI? I'd be sur- prised if such a thing exists. But the opposite is true. That's why I suggested that sending in ASCII is a good approach. It's the lowest common denominator. You're the one who keeps bringing up ANSI. I think you probably mean the collection of alterna- tive (mutually incompatible) Microsoft character sets that extend ASCII to give some foreign non- USA alternative characters depending on which character set is chosen. Your paragraph is not a reply to Mayayana's. ASCII indeed is the least common denominator for Latin- based alphabets. None of those character sets is compatible with any of the others, nor with UTF-8 nor of course with ASCII in that they are supersets of it. I am not sure which ones you mean, but Windows-1251, KOI8-R, and all the ISO/IEC 8859 character sets are perfectly compatible with ASCII. Futhermore, the witty designers of KOI8-R organised it so that the removal of the highest bit shall turn Russian text into a readable transliteration. They worked well enough for people using their computers to produce printed documents, but they weren't designed for the internet and they don't work well there. And I think it is the other way round. Good printed documens often require a richer set of characters than ASCII provides, whereas on the web they are rarely needed. I should hate to see '--' for a em- dash in a printed book but am content with the it on a web-page. -- () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcy6mjc [archived] |
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Convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes on Windows?
Anton Shepelev
news:20171026153221.05336c1204dc55f9f1b5a4ed@g{oog le}mail.com Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:32:21 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote: Mike S to Anton Shepelev: My friend has recently developed a syntax-highlit- ing scheme based on my adivce to imitate on screen the contrast of good printed text. He did so by comparing the lightntess of the various font colors with that of the background in the LAB color space. From photography I know that printed text has a contrast from about 9:1 to 15:1, whereas a pitch- black background produces the maximum contrast of which your monitor is capable. It is orders of mag- nitude higher than the comfotalbe value. Ask and it shall be given unto thee: https://freeshell.de/~antonius/img_h..._S100_B100.png Pay attention to the problem on Eternal-Septermber that prevents propagation. It is not fixed yet. By the way, 15:1 may be a low estimate because it corresponds to only four steps. I'm very late to this conversation, but the color layout in that pic is very good. -- Please visit our moderators personal page: https://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php Now for a cheeky message from our sponsors: Bite me, it's fun. |
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Convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes on Windows?
Anton Shepelev
news:20171029235014.1d1e2c558407d4f86374b7a2@gmail .com Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:50:14 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote: Mike S: I'd be very happy to have that, thank you for the generous offer, am already using Notepad++. (My return email address in this group works.) Here you are (or here it is): freeshell.de/~antonius/file_host/Nightfall.zip The archive contains the scheme you saw in the screenshot and a futher working draft of it. Thank you very much. -- Please visit our moderators personal page: https://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php Now for a cheeky message from our sponsors: Permitting your life to be taken over by another person is like letting the waiter eat your dinner. --Vernon Howard |
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Convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes on Windows?
Andy Burns
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:32:53 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote: Richard Tobin wrote: Ken Blake wrote: Jello and jelly aren't quite the same. Jello is a brand name; it's a commercial product. If you make it yourself, or buy a different brand, it's not jello. So what is it? Gelatine dessert? What is your generic name for the stuff that Jello, other brands, and the homemade version are examples of? The gelatine-based "Jell-O" brand is what we in the UK would generically call "jelly", but jelly in the states means "jam", as in PB&J I think. To confuse this further. We have jelly and jam and they aren't the same thing. The consistency is different for one. There are also non-gelatine "Jell-O puddings" the closest similar branded product in the UK is "Angel Delight" which generically are called "whipped desserts" here. Butterscotch anyone? Butterscotch is one of my favorites...Something I notice isn't shared with the majority of my family. -- Please visit our moderators personal page: https://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php Now for a cheeky message from our sponsors: What has four legs and an arm? A happy pitbull. |
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