Re: ASCII convention

Peter T. Daniels wrote: 

Peter Daniels is not interested in coding. Peter Daniels is talking
about the fonts on desktop computers -- the fonts that ordinary
scholars, not up-to-the-minute tech gurus like yourself, use in
preparing their scholarly manuscripts. If any portion of the "coding"
process is visible to the end user, then the coding process is a
failure. Just as no one using a typewriter needed to know anything about
its innards other than changing the ribbon (though presumably they had
their secretary do that).

Cars are carefully made to all work basically the same way. This "same way" does differ crom country to country -- e.g., right-hand vs left-hand driving -- but in any one place, they all do basically the same thing (with some differences in controls such as wipers, etc.).

Typewriters or computer keyboards are much the same as cars. Choose either QWERTY or Dvorak (or ...) as your locale warrants, and forget it.

Much computer software is deliberately made not to work like other software. Microsoft has made most of its billions because they do not follow standards. They successfully forced other companies to chase their changes. And they have obstructed the growth of standards.

Jonathan Buss
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