KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Dotan Cohen]

On 09/01/2008, Kaj Haulrich <kaj at haulrich.net> wrote:
> > > Dofan, just out of curiosity, what does the Hebrew letters
> > > say ?-------------------->
> > >
> > > > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
> >
> > It is the Hebrew alphabet. I run gibberish.co.il, which
> > translates wrongly-encoded Hebrew into legible Hebrew. In order
> > to do that, I need as many samples of wrongly-encoded Hebrew as
> > possible. So I attach those letters to every message, and when
> > people respond back with the wrong encoding, I can modify my code
> > and add support. Mailing lists are a great source, as people from
> > all over the world, with many different encodings, reply and much
> > my beautiful Hebrew!
>
> Ah.... Beautiful glyphs.  No caps? .

No caps. We only have one case of letters.

> BTW aren't most people using UTF-8 these days?

Many people are, but not everybody.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?