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Re: those funny non-ASCII characters
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: those funny non-ASCII characters |
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Thu, 31 May 2012 23:46:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
() "Buchs, Kevin" <buchs.kevin@mayo.edu>
() Thu, 31 May 2012 11:56:45 -0500
[...] once water flows up over a dam, it is going downstream
and has passed the reservoir behind the dam and presumably
passed your field of view.
In this specific instance [...]
OK, thanks. Now i understand.
I could have applied the analogy of "water over the dam" even
further to say that: "though there were many messages posted on
this list that are now water over the dam, I would like to
bring my message back to allow it to float to the top again."
The flow of messages is indeed like water.
I suppose everyone relates to this in their own way.
Using GNUS (now Gnus) to read these, i imagine myself an insect
buzzing around an upward turned flow (a geiser), first in summer
when the molecules dissociate quickly, then (later, always later)
in winter when they crystalize shard-like and treed, sometimes
under a brilliant sun refracted as rainbows, sometimes under a
brilliant moon that ghostly glows, sometimes in darkness lit only
by lucky grep rows. A drip gleaned here and there for sustenance,
a drop left there and here for assonance, the rest left to what
entropy can penetrate the disks of gmane.
Anyway, Unicode is ASCII-compatible, so probably if you wrangle
your environment to Unicode by default, Emacs will also DTRT.
Check out <http://www.utf8everywhere.org>. Yes, it does touch
upon topics best avoided in polite company, but oh well...
- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, (continued)
- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, Xah Lee, 2012/05/24
- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, Buchs, Kevin, 2012/05/25
- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, Xah Lee, 2012/05/25
- RE: those funny non-ASCII characters, Buchs, Kevin, 2012/05/30
- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/05/31
- RE: those funny non-ASCII characters, Buchs, Kevin, 2012/05/31
- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/05/31
- RE: those funny non-ASCII characters, Buchs, Kevin, 2012/05/31
- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <=
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- Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, rusi, 2012/05/31
Re: those funny non-ASCII characters, PJ Weisberg, 2012/05/31