Speaker For The Diodes - A Reminder About Updating To The New Standard

Apr. 1st, 2008

06:24 am - A Reminder About Updating To The New Standard

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Since so much communication on the Internet is done in languages other than English, and Unicode is all over the place, and even English-speakers who grew up in ASCII are getting used to embedding accented characters in loanwords and proper nouns ...

... and given that we do still occasionally need some trivial encryption to prevent accidental premature viewing of spoilers or punchlines without actually keeping anything secret ...

ROT-13 has been replaced by ROT-98304. If you have ROT-13 macros defined in your newsreader or mail program, don't forget to update them to the new standard.

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