Re: Expressing fractions

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:05:17 GMT

Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
> Ar an naoiú lá de mÖ Eanair, scrÖobh Peter T. Daniels:
>
> > And several people [...]
>
> Again, interesting interpretation. Wonder can I get away with citing my own
> opinion as that of *several people.**

I wasn't one of them, since I don't know anything about such things.

> > [...] have _already_ told you that curly quotes cannot be transmitted
> > successfully across several widely used, up-to-date, standard systems.
> >
> > If you will buy me a new computer, I will be able to use Unicode.
>
> If you install Mozilla, you*ll be able to use Unicode in newsgroups without
> a problem. http://www.wamcom.org/latest-131/
>
> > OS X cannot be implemented on the Performa.
>
> *OS X does not have a supported Apple release on the Performa.**
>
> I*m not really interested in arguing this further with you, and only
> intervened after you suggested my behaviour was perverse to someone
> else. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

I said that several weeks ago. You haven't mended your ways. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Expressing fractions
    ... Again, interesting interpretation. ... Wonder can I get away with citing my own ... opinion as that of “several people.” ... you’ll be able to use Unicode in newsgroups without ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: ASCII convention
    ... > Peter T. Daniels: ... >>> Is this really the Peter T. Daniels who edited ... > The development of standards like SGML or Unicode or CSS or whatever has ... > Unicode standard) and the persons who have studied writing systems in ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Ugaritic Affiliations
    ... Unicode documents are a pretty reliable source of ISO 10646 character names, which can be useful when there's uncertainty as to which character is meant. ... Peter Daniels wrote of Arabic and Ugaritic, 'Their consonant inventories are in fact identical'. ... Or is it some other Ugaritic letter that is being equated with dad? ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: inserting Unicode character in dictionary - Python
    ... If you had prefixed that literal with a "u", then you'd have Unicode. ... interpreting the bytes in the source file -- which you can make it do by ... interpretation is... ... UTF-8 string, but the problem is that none of the standard Python ...
    (comp.lang.python)
  • Re: Factory Pattern
    ... No. C and C++ have enumerations. ... Careful. ... It is a question of interpretation of any given character set ... Why is being case-insensitive and allowing full Unicode ...
    (comp.lang.ada)
Quantcast