Re: Those Darn Email Character Mappings
Re: Those Darn Email Character Mappings
- Subject: Re: Those Darn Email Character Mappings
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:10:01 -0800
On 1/4/01 9:45 AM, "Richard 23" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Now I do realize that this is a free no-frills service and I do
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appreciate
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that Apple provides it to us. It may come as a shock to some that
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AppleScript is discussed here and occasionally people post code snippets
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and those snippets invariably use the Macintosh character set.
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You'd think that a server which carries such text where a few special
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characters which are significant for a script to compile would be
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taken into consideration. It's inconvenient but acceptable for these
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characters to be incorrectly translated, but allowing them to map to
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other commonly used characters is very annoying and unnecessary.
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I would really appreciate it if something were done to at least make
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translation feasable. Modifying the translation script which used to
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work fine to figure out whether a comma is really a comma or is actually
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a continuation character or whether a greater than sign is really supposed
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to be less than or equals is a little beyond my current knowledge of
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text processing.
YES, YES, YES!!!
I don't understand why Apple insists on using a server for their mailing
lists which can't understand Macintosh key-mapping. Are they trying to tell
us that we'd all be better off if we used Windows? That's definitely how it
comes across, using a list server that insists on converting our characters
to Windows-mapping. (I presume that's what it's doing, anyway. Is this
wrong?)
If there really are no decent servers that understand Mac key-mappings,
wouldn't it be a good service to the Mac community - and maybe good business
for someone - to develop some translation software? Apple could either do it
themselves and sell it, or commission some company to do it. Surely this
mailing list is not the only potential customer for such a thing?
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Paul Berkowitz