Re: test
  By: Michiel van der Vlist to mark lewis on Sat Jun 27 2020 16:40:36


 ml>> that is intentional use... it is two musical notes which in a tag
 ml>> line indicate a song or singing... then there are the ones that
 ml>> use the card suits and the smiley faces which are also in the low
 ml>> ASCII range...

 MvdV> Accident or intent, I consider it wrong.

that's you... many others don't... especially when they have valid glyphs that
one may want to use in their messages or screen drawings...

 MvdV> The ASCII specification reserves the values 00-1F as control
 MvdV> codes, not printable characters.

then why do they have printable glyphs?

 MvdV> Using any ASCII control codes other than 00, 01, 0A or 0D in the
 MvdV> text part of Fidonet messages may result in unpredictable
 MvdV> behaviour. Even in an environment where it results in a printable
 MvdV> character, one can not be sure what image it will display. It may
 MvdV> look very different on a non IBM clone...

all valid points but they have been being used in text messages and screen
drawings for 30+ years... i was using them on RIME/PCRelay before i ever heard
about fidonet ;)

 MvdV> I recommend using Unicode codepoint U+1F3B5

one day when FTN software and offline mail readers support it, sure... in the
mean time, it is what it is...


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