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Draconian Character Rules

pudge on 2003-07-29T19:41:17

I am testing some features of Slash, which means you will be limited to Latin-1, with no high-bit characters. Entities/character references only!

This will revert back to the old way of "whatever characters you want, man" later this week, likely.

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This is a test

pudge on 2003-07-29T19:42:15

«This is a quote!»

Note

pudge on 2003-07-29T20:27:55

High-bit Latin-1 chars will be converted to the appropriate character reference, unless there is an appropriate ASCII version hardcoded in the code (like 'curly quotes' -> 'straight quotes' ... suck it up!).

In Extrans and Code modes (and ECODE tags), which do not allow any character references, those character references will turn into literal text, like «, because why would you use that character in Code anyway? Silly.

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jdavidb on 2003-07-29T20:49:56

Bah; curly quotes were an abomination, anyway, from the moment the Macintosh first invented them. Or maybe from the moment the Wintel world first changed the high bit character code for them. (Or maybe I have my history wrong....)

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Elian on 2003-07-29T21:07:20

Curly quotes are several hundred years older than the Macintosh...

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jdavidb on 2003-07-30T01:05:52

Yeah, but typewriters got rid of that abomination long ago. Why people have to bring back the wild ways of the ancients is beyond me. ;)

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Elian on 2003-07-30T01:32:29

The typewriter quotes are the abomination though...

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TorgoX on 2003-07-30T05:51:46

You people and your slight differences disgust me!

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jhi on 2003-07-30T12:23:26

Talking about horrible quotes, I wish `these' ugly quotes would stop showing up.

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jdavidb on 2003-07-30T13:17:16

OH, MY, YES!!! I hate that. I've even seen software that does that automatically.

Whenever I see that I feel like the typist was just very insecure about only having straight quotes. It really takes away my respect for their writing.

Also, `' may resemble quotes, but on many terminals I use, they are so big it almost looks like the author quoted like \this|.

Are you crazy??

jdavidb on 2003-07-29T20:48:53

This place is full of linguists, man!

PRE

jhi on 2003-07-29T21:22:05

While you are testing for new features, could we get allowed in HTML?

Re:PRE

pudge on 2003-07-29T21:27:58

PRE? No, I think that won't happen. PRE is abused and messes up entire pages. Might as well ask me to give a loaded gun to bunch of convicted murderers. OK, it is true that use.perl.org users are not Slashdot users, but really, PRE just causes a lot more problems than it solves.

Re:img

jjohn on 2003-07-29T22:19:27

I want to post images in my journal, just like Elaine does with MT. pleasepleaseplease. slash doesn't need to host them and if it messes up the page, it's my own fault. Even if I keep posting pictures from goats.ex. pleasepleaseplease. :-)

Re:img

pudge on 2003-07-29T22:22:41

No. :p

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jjohn on 2003-07-30T00:02:10

*sigh*. Well, I had to try whining. I couldn't think of anything less energetic to try.