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Thread #173516   Message #4207817
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
02-Sep-24 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Tech: obscure characters app native to Win10+
Subject: RE: Tech: obscure characters app native to Win10+
Side issue: Beware of doing fancy things with text. I once read of a chap who wished to emphasise the "not" in his boilerplate e-disclaimer by using flashing-font escape codes, secure in the knowledge that said codes would survive being e-mailed, as it would be decoded correctly at the far end by MIME-compliant mailers.

What he didn't anticipate was that one recipient's e-mail client (or perhaps his monitor) would elide everything between the "start flash" and "end flash" codes, because it didn't understand them (properly?); this turned the disclaimer into a claimer. The ensuing bollocking was so intense that the offender subsequently sent an e-confession to the entire Net, lest others fall into the same trap for lack of warning.

We now return you to the original subject.