🚀 go-pugleaf

    - hi; in dipspc article, <1192081741snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
   pete@nospam.demon.co.uk observed inaccurately, but with excuse:
        ^^^^^^
>                     "ppint. at IMT" writes:
>>             pete@nospam.demon.co.uk marvelled [0]:
>[..]
>>>[utf-8 stuff]
>>>>>>	- um, any update on the ease (or otherwise) of tackling
>>>>>>	this [] awaited with interest [..]
>>>>>Still "work in progress"[].  I might get to take a look this w/e 
>[..]
>>>Well.  There is a teensy-weensy problem: the Unicode characters 
>>>were (I thought) 16-bit, but it appears that they are getting 
>>>wider than that.  But no matter; even 64K characters are beyond 
>>>the capability of DOS -- where we have only 256 at a time :-(
>>>
>>>However, all is not lost.  I've thrown together some ugly^H^H^H^H
>>>elegant code which pretends that "charset=UTF-8" is "charset=ISO-
>>>8859-1" (which is I guessed what most of us Eurotypes are interested
>>>in) and mapped the common Unicode punctuation code points (U+2000 to 
>>>U+206F) to the nearest ASCII displayable equivalent.  Everything 
>>>else gets mapped to an inverted question mark ('�' or U+00BF).  
>>>Seems to work, where "work" is relative rather than absolute :)
>> 
>>	- "it's doing something, captain - but we're not entirely
>>	sure what..." - ?
>> 
>>>At least it renders the article slightly more readable, and 
>>>consumes only a few hundred bytes of memory.  If there is anyone 
>>>maintaining the JLW Snews (are you listening, John?) who would 
>>>like to see my code with a view to implementing it, just let me 
>>>know. [My Snews is based on an earlier GeK version and is so 
>>>different from the JLW one that this task might not be as 
>>>straightforward as a copy&paste job...]
>
>Well, I took the metaphoric bull by the proverbials and had a go 
>at applying my mods to the latest JW version I could find,

	- woo-hoo!
>                     and emailed the result to your good self.

	- ooh!

[shuffle]
>I think I made the required changes to your email correctly...

	- you did, you did; however, i was not aware of knowing
	anyone using that particular demon domain, and it looked
	"quite large, for a newsgroup-related email or cc." and
	as i was _fairly_ sure no-one'd mentioned they were about
	to send me aught binary or elsewise encoded recently -
>
>Judging by the ensuing silence, I guess you didn't receive it? 
>
	- i thought, i'd better write an exclusion line in the
	mailkill file to let it through, then decode whatever-
	it-is as soon as i have the time to, and _then_ decide
	what to do with it...

	- so i hadn't looked at it at all, which i now have done,
	to discover it was from yourself, let alone what it was
	that [you] had sent me. and i haven't yet run it through
	mime64 to decode it, or anything - life here in IMT is a
	little bit less organised than normal (eg the week's main
	rpg, boardgame, ccg & nccg order generally phoned through
	on the tuesday: this week, i phoned it through thursday -
	today - as i'd been hoping the week's new releases sheet
	would tun up yesterday or today (it didn't) (it usually
	arrives on the saturday, giving plenty of time to update
	the IMT web site, compose a provisional order and advise
	customers of aught new in which they might be interested,
	that i was not currently proposing to order...) - and i
	haven't actually had any noticeable increase in my "cft"
	as a result of this delay (caused by this first 48-hour
	post office strike, as is [mostly] over), which in turn
	is due mostly to the, ah, "knock-on effects" of the re-
	cent events detailed near the top of

	      http://www.i-m-t.demon.co.uk/diary.htm

	(or should that be

	   http://www.i-m-t.demon.co.uk/docroot/diary.htm

	                  these days?  i hope not.)

	- so please accept both my apologies for the delay in
	making any response at all, and also provisional thanks
	(to be adumbrated at greater length than the mere note
	of their existence, and their provisional status to be
	emended, as soon as my currently meagre reserves of cft
	permit.

	- love, ppint.
	 [the address from which this was posted bounces e-mail;
	  please change the "f" to a "g" and drop the "v" if you
                      wish to cc. or e-mail me.]
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