On 16/02/2021 14:44, Mayayana wrote:
> "TimS"  wrote
>
> | >     No. I can only read English. I only write English.
> | > It's of no value to see characters in languages I
> | > can't read, even if I have the font. The nice thing
> | > about not displaying in UTF-8 is that I don't have
> | > to see emojis. I can just write a cranky not back
> | > to people saying that I only see boxes. That usually
> | > cures them of emoji mania. :)
> |
> | You're obviously making life too easy for yourself. Why not just junk all
> this
> | useful software nonsense, and read the bits directly off the disk. All you
> | need is a bar magnet, a magnifying glass, and some fine iron filings.
> | Simples!
> |
>     :) This seems to really get your goat. If you'll recall,
> all I said was that UTF-8 was a good choice because
> for English-speaking people and most webpages it was
> an invisible transition. That might not be politically
> correct, but it's true.
>
>    If you're on Linux and text files default to UTF-8 then
> that's handy. You'll never need to know that the encoding
> is not ASCII/ANSI. Since all my text files and HTML files are
> essentially ASCII, I convert any UTF-8 I get to that.
> For me UTF-8 is only corrupted text data.
>
>    For many people, UTF-8 is a great solution. That's fine.
> But if you're going to send me funky characters for no reason,
> in English, in a text-based medium, I see no reason to figure
> out how to decipher it... And imagine my dismay at going to the
> trouble only to find that someone has sent me 4 crying faces,
> 3 piles of shit, and an umbrella... or is that a soccer ball?
> Or that they're trying to show off by sending some ditty in
> Turkish or Russian... I still don't know what it means. I can't
> read Turkish and Russian.
>
>    And what the heck does 4 crying faces and 3 piles of
> shit and an umbrella mean? The sender is having a tantrum?

No, they are tossers who can safely be ignored
Dont knock the value of knowing that


> They've eaten too many prunes? They hate shitting? Or maybe
> it's an inside joke. Maybe that's Beyonce's famous signature?
> Sort of a "proud to be cranky" gimmick? Maybe it's Taylor
> Swift's official breakup note? Maybe the sender is signalling
> their fondness for some foul tempered rock star?
>
>    Who knows? It's
> hardly an articulate expression. I pretty much ignore
> emojis, anyway, for that reason. I usually don't know
> what they mean. I just figured out that what I thought
> was a corncob is probably "anjali" -- praying hands. So...
> what?... a hippie is writing to me and they've developed
> that irritating behavioral tic of bowing to express false
> humility? ... Or maybe it really is a corncob. Beats me.
> I need UTF-8 so that I can see such crap? I don't think so.
>
>
Exactly. you don't want their choices forced on you so don't force your
choices on them!

And don't complain then that there is no mutual communication.


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