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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:08:02 GMT
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Jacob Sparre Andersen skrev i meddelandet ...
> Todd Lehman:
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> > Wow. OK, that certainly makes sense. So, the hypothesis is that "~" may
> > have been disallowed so that commonly available software (which used "~" • for
> > special formatting tricks) for certain languages didn't have to be altered
> > to parse-recognize URLs and avoid converting "~" in those cases? In other
> > words, it may have been a legacy thing for backward compatibility with
> > existing text processing tools?
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> It works like I described (at least the ~n case) even in
> Word97/Win95(DK), so I am not sure it is correct to call it
> a "backward" compatibility problem[1]. People have to learn
> to type <tilde> <space> to get a tilde on most European
> PC's.
It has nothing to do with different software (MS or others), it's in the
keyboard driver (OK, that's probably MS). On a Swedish keyboard '~' is a 'dead
char', which is automatically composed with the next char if it's possible.
This has been so (at least) since the first PC-keyboard.
I suppose this is defined somewhere in some ISO-standard (don't remember the
number right now :-)
The other 'dead-chars' on my keyboard are ´ (acute accent), ` (grave accent)
and ¨ (trema)
Despite this, all (?) Swedish ISP:s use the tilde in user names (see sig.)
I think the main problem is that US keyboards/users doesn't care for the rest
of the world, while the rest of the world have to care both for themselves and
the US.
(On of my pet peeves: US chauvinism...)
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery.htm
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| (...) Me too -- I know what you mean. And the cluelessness about non-U.S. conventions is IMHO even worse than the chauvinism... One thing to remember, though: The A in ASCII does stand for American. :-) Say, I've got a user-interface question about (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Wow. OK, that certainly makes sense. So, the hypothesis is that "~" may have been disallowed so that commonly available software (which used "~" for special formatting tricks) for certain languages didn't have to be altered to parse-recognize (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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