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I too miss the time when computers were meant to be symbolic, and 7bit codes were more than enough to explain ideas, and the small minority of people who actual
by rixed 3y ago
I too miss the time when computers were meant to be symbolic, and 7bit codes were more than enough to explain ideas, and the small minority of people who actually needed to perform typography had dedicated softwares and as far as I know it worked pretty well, in that nobody had to wonder what kind of hyphen or what kind of space would a simple keystroke translates into...
- perilunar 3y agoI miss the time when only writers had to type, and everyone else had secretaries to do it for them. /s Now we do our own typing, and increasingly, our own typesetting.
- rixed 3y agoI don't think I made my point clear. Less than 5% of what I'm doing is related to typography (namely: only when displaying text for the end user). 95% of the time when I manipulate text, the text is intended for a computer to process further. I don't want typographic issues such as the proper length of spaces when delimiting keywords on the command line, or proper collation order to slow down my `git grep`, any more than I want to be bothered by variable width fonts when I'm writing code. UTF-8 to compose user visible strings in GUI is a godsend, though.