Newspaper story - I'm famous!

Congrats! Reading it brings back the pleasant memory from the PCD event.

 

7 bit ASCII - Oh the horror!

Tom

 

Great job on the story!
Also, you guys are making the Toyota people very happy, which is a good thing.

 

Change your name to an ASCII form, or perhaps just escape the non-ASCII characters. How about if you always spell it out with Hex.

Tom

 

OMG!!! a typo?? how can that be??

well, heck... must be a WA State thing we got here... in the Daily Olympian (which is just over the hill from Rene) they have a regular column called "Corrections" guess what that is all about

 

In English, the diaeresis - ¨ - over a vowel indicates that it should be pronounced as a separate sound, rather than modifying the sound of the previous vowel. Hence, naïve, and Zoë.

The New Yorker Magazine prefers coördinate, coöperate to co-ordinate, co-operate. They're fighting a losing battle, though.

To type it, you need to select the US International keyboard layout (in Windows), then hold AltGr (right Alt) and Shift, then ", followed by E. I use United Kingdom Extended when I want to type accents, but the regular UK layout the rest of the time, otherwise Remote Desktop decides I want Welsh when connecting to a remote computer.

 

Then, after going through all that bother to type it correctly, someone runs it through a 7 bit ASCII filter and your effort is for naught.

Tom

 

Congrats to those that went and are getting coverage.

Hopefully they will take any good recommendations to heart.

Looking forward (4+gas) to get the latest greats. We usually stick with what we like and what's dependable. So far no problems and the service has been great.

 

wow no need to be a 4 year old.it was an honest question

 

I don't think he was mocking your question, I believe he was poking fun at the quality of newspaper writing.

Tom

 

true. oh internet how easy it is to misunderstand. no harm no foul.

 

ya was not mocking you in anyway...actually should have added that the "Daily Olympian" (the "O" is in Script and very prominent) is nicknamed the "The Daily Zero"
because it is so well known for very glaring typos.

 

We have two papers in the area; a daily and a weekly. One is named The Record Eagle and the other The Leelanau Enterprise. Locally they are known as The Retched Beagle and The Leelanau Surprise. Their ability to mangle words, stories, grammar, and spelling is legendary.

Tom

 

Don't make your kids go through life in UTF-8. Once they develop
a need for those eighth bits, their lives will never be the same.
Keep it simple, keep it seven, and they'll always have a place
to go without being subject to filtering.
.
_H*

 

If at all possible, name your kids with an octal number.

Tom