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An Apology (Political Thread)
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N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
<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> |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
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... |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
@ NeoAmsterdam @ Misfit thank you both for Your: ---- Humanity , ---- your Eloquence I am just learning about Computers and how to post on message boards _ :( _ friendly and respectful byron |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
thank you both for Your: Humanity , Eloquence You have no idea what that means to me. :) |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
Sometimes its not what you say but how you say it. How very true. Next time I'll post my comments in MP3! :) |
ChinookFoehn Send message Joined: 18 Apr 02 Posts: 462 Credit: 24,039 RAC: 0 |
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N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
"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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