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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Tue Jun 9 19:16:57 BST 2020
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 11:24:44AM +0300, Frank LENORMAND wrote:
How are clients supposed to render words that are censored with asterisks?
However they like! But "verbatim" seems like the only sensible option.
The spec was modified to make sure clients understand the above isn't a
bullet item. Therefore writers are indirectly allowed by the standard to
influence the rendering, otherwise there would have been no conflict to
address in the first place.
I really don't follow you here. Writers are of course *allowed* to putasterisks around their words if they want to but this doesn't imply thatthey should expect clients to do anything in particular with thatinformation. People use asterisks to emphasise words when writingplain text content for Gopher where they know for sure that clientswon't do anything with it.
So clients will render the above as "sshle", which isn't the writer's
intent.
What on Earth makes you think clients will render that as sshle? Iwouldn't use a client that did that.
Cheers,Solderpunk