Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
A Minsky is a polygon in R?. It is completely specified by two real parameters, ? and ?, and any one of its vertex points.
Sigh. As has been mentioned before, non-ASCII characters all get turned into question marks in the digest, often rendering messages incomprehensible. Please don't use them. Thanks. Presumably this is done by the digestifying software since there's no standard interpretation for eight-bit codes. Or rather there are many incompatible standard interpretations for eight-bit codes. ("The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.") Each message has headers describing which standard is used, but if two messages with different standards end up in the same digest, which header line should the digest message header use? Any reasonable solution would be a lot of work for our listmaster. What's far less work is for everyone to not use non-ASCII characters, or to spell them out (e.g. "pi" instead of the single Greek letter). Thanks.