Re: Question on Sigs...

the_mighty_balloo wrote:
> I use the smallest possible character still visible, the cedilla, as my
> attribution mark.  Whenever I see it in a thread, I know that I've chosen
> to quote someone. 

Mhmmm... and if I'm aware of that you quote text like that my mind says
"balloo wrote this", and then I get the wrong idea of what your opinion
about something is... I _know_ that you _quoted_ the text, but it's
still confusing. I've often had to re-read posts because of this!!!

> The only problem with it is that there are some character
> sets that do no display the cedilla, and when it's quoted by someone using
> a non latin-1 charset it ends up as some ugly hexidecimal notation.

So, you have discovered why the ascii art FAQ recommends a very strict
format for anything to qualify as "ascii art":

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|                                                               |
| 32 SP | 33  ! | 34  " | 35  # | 36  $ | 37  % | 38  & | 39  ' |
| 40  ( | 41  ) | 42  * | 43  + | 44  , | 45  - | 46  . | 47  / |
| 48  0 | 49  1 | 50  2 | 51  3 | 52  4 | 53  5 | 54  6 | 55  7 |
| 56  8 | 57  9 | 58  : | 59  ; | 60  < | 61  = | 62  > | 63  ? |
| 64  @ | 65  A | 66  B | 67  C | 68  D | 69  E | 70  F | 71  G |
| 72  H | 73  I | 74  J | 75  K | 76  L | 77  M | 78  N | 79  O |
| 80  P | 81  Q | 82  R | 83  S | 84  T | 85  U | 86  V | 87  W |
| 88  X | 89  Y | 90  Z | 91  [ | 92  \ | 93  ] | 94  ^ | 95  _ |
| 96  ` | 97  a | 98  b | 99  c |100  d |101  e |102  f |103  g |
|104  h |105  i |106  j |107  k |108  l |109  m |110  n |111  o |
|112  p |113  q |114  r |115  s |116  t |117  u |118  v |119  w |
|120  x |121  y |122  z |123  { |124  | |125  } |126  ~ |       |
|                                                               |
| No, no, no, MUST'NT use ones that are not on the chart!       |
|                                                               |
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By this definition Martin's quote marks are ascii art, and so is the
"standard" use of  >  for quote marks, but not your  �  characters...

> When I get the new linux box (ha ha it's still a P90) online, I'll see if I
> can write a slang macro to remove the spaces before the common quote markers.
> It's not really ascii art, but I love the look of a long cascade of
> nonsequiturs rolling down the page, and I hate to see the pattern ruined by
> line breaks.  I'll take a few moments to think up a reply, then spend a couple
> of minutes reformatting the previous responses so that the cascade is neat
> and all the attributes are clearly defined.  My wife has suggested I do some
> research into "obsessive compulsive disorder" and I don't know why...

Of course you care about this! You don't want to send out ugly-looking
posts! I do it too! (and I suspect most people in alt.ascii-art have the
same attitude on this point...)

I use the news reader in Netscape 3 (unix) and it doesn't wrap text that
I quote. Of course, if somebody else has already damaged the look I'll
still end up either doing a major snip or "repairing" things, one line
at a time....  :-/


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