RE: Adopt standard? [Opt \] [Opt Shift \] or « »
RE: Adopt standard? [Opt \] [Opt Shift \] or « »
- Subject: RE: Adopt standard? [Opt \] [Opt Shift \] or « »
- From: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:03:18 -0800
There's always (bleah!) this:
<<xxxxyyyy>>
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Gnarlodious [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:35 AM
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To: Applescript-Users
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Subject: Adopt standard? [Opt \] [Opt Shift \] or « »
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Yeah, rotten. These AppleEvent Calls?? might be very popular. Maybe we
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should adopt a standard of [Opt \] [Opt Shift \]or even
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« »
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which is the HTML code for Left/Right Angle Quotes
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This is the equivalent problem of the ¬ (not sign) [opt L] used is
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wrapping long script lines.
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It IS confusing!
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Rachel http://www.gnarlodious.com
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Entity Paul Berkowitz spoke thus:
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> No, it's the way that this particular mailing list server which the
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> AppleScript-Users List and the many other Apple User Groups
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use mangles
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> characters requiring the option key (characters past the
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standard 128 ASCII
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> characters). MacRoman character formatting is different
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from Windows and
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> Unix layouts and the server is - believe it or not - not set up for
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> Macintosh but for one of those others. As far as I
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understand, it probably
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> could be fixed, but the people who run the list (Apple,
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basically) don't
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> consider it a priority, so they don't do it. We had a huge
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row about it a
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> year ago but it made no difference. We were basically told
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that it's a
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> minority concern and we should piss off. So that's it -
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until it changes -
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> and we just have to put up with it. Lousy, isn't it?
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