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Message 31653 - Posted: 1 Oct 2004, 2:46:51 UTC
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<p>I must take this opportunity to explain why I have retracted and/or deleted postings -- Especially those found in Message boards: Cafe SETI: POLITICAL THREAD. By default I have used the Unicode (UTF-8) encoding to post messages. By doing so, I had expected to be able to use the typographically correct glyphs, as well communicate in non-Latin languages such as Hebrew.</p><p>It was not until H. Richard Utzig commented that my posts were full of irregular glyphs. I found parts of his posts sarcastic, snobbish, and even hostile. Instead of checking my posts for cross-platform compatibility, I engaged him with keyboards drawn.</p><p>When Misfit also alerted me to the unexpected characters, I asked a PC-using friend to read the political thread. He too could not cause the intended glyphs (Left/right single/double quote, en-dash, em-dash, et cetera), that I began to replace the intended glyphs with ASCII-compliant characters.</p><p>I am sure that I have caused offense to H. Richard Utzig, and as a result I wish to publicly announce my sincere apology to him, as well as any other user who was irritated by the encoding issue. I have removed the offending characters from all of my posts to date, and hope that this abates your annoyance.</p>
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Message 31667 - Posted: 1 Oct 2004, 3:37:09 UTC - in response to Message 31660.  
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Actually I brought it up here first but I bet you were distracted by the pics :)

Yes, I remember. I said "UTF-8". I still like the picture, too! :)

<a>It happens.[/url] <a>Don't worry about it.[/url] :)

I do. Stupidly? Maybe, but I don't want to be in the position of having to return fire in a forum! Doubly so when it's something as pitifully insignificant as Unicode v. ISO Latin...
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Message 31670 - Posted: 1 Oct 2004, 3:46:13 UTC
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thank you both for Your: ---- Humanity , ---- your Eloquence


I am just learning about Computers and how to post on message boards _ :( _




friendly and respectful
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Message 31671 - Posted: 1 Oct 2004, 3:50:25 UTC - in response to Message 31670.  
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thank you both for Your:

Humanity , Eloquence


You have no idea what that means to me. :)
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Message 31684 - Posted: 1 Oct 2004, 4:27:22 UTC - in response to Message 31680.  
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Sometimes its not what you say but how you say it.

How very true. Next time I'll post my comments in MP3! :)
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Message 31727 - Posted: 1 Oct 2004, 10:00:50 UTC - in response to Message 31653.  
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Message 31913 - Posted: 2 Oct 2004, 0:14:32 UTC - in response to Message 31727.  
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"I have no idea why, NeoAmsterdam, you'd think I would take offence - just read some of the personal attacks I have taken by many others whose concept of arguing a discussion is to use profanity, racial attacks, personal attacks, etc. ..."

In hindisight... I guess I did take things too personally.
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