7 Jun
2025
7 Jun
'25
4:37 p.m.
My apologies to anyone who received gobbledygook in my original message. It was only after
I replied to Dennis, off group and thinking he somehow knew my "italics"
weren't really italics, that I looked up the u10000 block, saw ancient runes and
realized my shortcut had gone awry.
Full disclosure, I had ignored my teacher's advice from computing class 40 years ago,
that ASCII 0x20 through 0x7E is mostly adequate, and pasted the book title into
LingoJam's italics generator webpage and then pasted their italicized output into my
email without considering how that worked even though I know.
For those who got the unintended gobbledygook, the book title was "Document
formatting and typesetting on the UNIX system. Vol. 2: grap, mv, ms, & troff" by
Narain Gehani and Steven Lally.
Best wishes to all,
Cameron Tyre
-------- Original Message --------
On 07/06/2025 16:30, Alexander Schreiber <als(a)thangorodrim.ch> wrote:
Is carefully typing the title in characters from the \u10000 moby of
unicode the 21st century equivalent of rot-13 encoding the spoilers? :)
If so, then it only hides from those with bad font setups in their
terminals (or email clients for those preferring fancy GUI ones).
Perfectly readable here with mutt inside xterm. ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
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