Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: Matthew Garrett
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 05:21 on 17 Oct 2005
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:46:17PM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Juerd wrote:
> 
> >     ¥ (Y)
> >     « (<<)
> >     » (>>)
> 
> *stuttering shock*
> 
> Those actually show up correctly in my rxvt on OS X...

Given that large swathes of people are able to deal with character sets 
more complicated than iso 8859-1 (which seems to have existed for, ooh, 
about 20 years), it really shouldn't be that much of a shock that some 
number of applications actually support it properly.

Stuff like ☭, on the other hand...

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxx.xxxx.xxx

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