Re: newsletters in text format

Bier de Stone wrote:

> Zotiel R. Bell wrote:
> 
>> "Bier de Stone" <art...@att.net> wrote in message
>> news:SYwSd.64192$Th1...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>
>>> i guess, then, I don't have the ability to save in ascii
>>> format anymore. Unless Western (Mac OS Roman) is the equivalent for
>>> ascii (under a different name).
>>
>> you can see my older diddles here:
>> http://www.geocities.com/neverclan/gamefaqs/arialascii.html
>>
> Your old diddles were awesome and entertaining. That must take loads of 
> patience. I would not be able to decide whether to use a period or a 
> comma. I could really enjoy this NG if only to just watch what gets 
> posted here.
> 
> BTW, I'm still curious to know if Western (Mac OS Roman) is considered 
> the equivalent to ascii. So I did a little test. I saved a file on my 
> computer with some foreign accent marks (tildes, umlauts) and some 
> symbols (corporate, (c), pilcrow, etc.) in text format specifying 
> Unicode-8. When I re-opened the file, my symbols were replaced with 
> something else. I do the same experiment with Western (Mac OS Roman) 
> specified instead of Uni-8 and when I re-open the file, everything's 
> intact. However, I do this experiment one last time, saving the file as 
> Unicode-16. When I open it, my symbols are intact too. Does this prove 
> that I can use either Western or Unicode-16 to save a file in ascii format?

"Unicode-16 to save a file in ascii format?"

This seems to be a dumb question.

> Oh yeah, I almost forgot. What are the rules of this NG on sending 
> messages formatted with hyperlinks (html format)? I know that a formal 
> URL will almost always appear as a hyperlink on a newsreader, but 
> sometimes the html format is too long making text very unpleasant to 
> read. I feel that one shouldn't have to reserve an entire line break to 
> refer to a link in URL format just to make readability easier. And using 
> <a href> tags don't work with my newsreader unless I select the proper 
> tool to create linked text. I know an html message takes up more Kbs, 
> but it isn`t as though I`m planning on attaching .jpg images. So, could 
> somebody please get back to me on this question.

OA: q------p

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