Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 08:59:42 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>You know you can use a lof of "lookalikes" as UTF-8 knows a lot
>of whitespace cheracters, hyphens and dashes, and so on, so it
>should be used only in cases where (a) US-ASCII doesn't provide
>the required symbol, or (b) the UTF-8 symbol is preferred for a
>valid reason.

Forwards and backwards:

e.g. forwards:

"Kemal Atatürk [snip] also introduced the Latin-based Turkish alphabet
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet ], replacing the old
Ottoman Turkish alphabet
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet ]. [snip]" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk )

The Ottoman Turkish alphabet is probably way more aesthetic, but
completely unsuitable for printing.

e.g. backwards:

http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_sex_symbols.html

How can we offer a job without a complete list of gender identity
related things (sex relation, marriage status). This is asking either
for UTF code or for ASCII art.

"IT System Administrator Server / Storage (👬/👭/⚲/⚧/[snip]/⚯/⚭/⚮)"

the alternative would be

"IT System Administrator Server / Storage"

without mentioning any gender identity related things at all, but
probably way too many people feel offended by not mentioning anything
gender identity related at all ;) ( 😉 ).