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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  5 Feb 2009 09:44:36 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sed crash
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> erik quanstrom wrote:
> > next we'll be replacing :-) (':' '-' ')' for those with impaired mail
> readers) with a jpeg.
>
> This is Plan 9: replace it with ☺.

clearly.  " tcs -f emoticon" anyone? ☺

the point i'm trying to make is that "☺" is
not the same as :-).  i find it irritating that
some mail readers massage and process the
text to the point where one can see no
difference.

the reason this is irritating is that the mail
reader has decided that message bodies are
not text but rather an input language to it's
own special mail frobnicator.  since nobody
has admitted that this is a language, there
is no spec and i'd wager that no two mail
readers do quite the same thing.

- erik