Message: 14
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:46:07 -0800
From: Jonathan Walther <krooger(a)debian.org>
To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Wikitech-l digest, Vol 1
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:28:53PM -0800, Brion Vibber
wrote:
What would you prefer? That we tell Anthere to take a
hike and buy a
new
computer? That I petition my uni to upgrade hundreds
of machines in
their labs? That we ignore similar conditions across
the world where
people have old machines or machines they cannot
control and tell them,
hey, fuck off, Wikipedia's not for you you whiny
bitch?
Your examples are legitimate. How would you feel if
there was a user option to edit in "broken UTF-8
mode"? Then when you edited a page, you could insert
some markup to put in non-ASCII characters. I don't
know what the best way to do this would be; I am
guessing something like \xAB\xCD where \x means "an 8
bit value in hexadecimal representation follows". If
you have any other ideas, let me know.
Jonathan
This could not make it in french. We have accentuated
letters in an awful number of words. That would make
editing very difficult.
When is Jimbo coming back from holidays ?
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