[Oberon] ReadInt vs ReadNum

[Jörg Straube]

1) Digitally signing an email is a technology more than 10 years old.
First standard RFC1847 / 1995, with several refinements upto the latest version 3.2 standardized in RFC5751 / 2010.
Almost all current email clients support this S/MIME extension today.
Just ignore the signature attachment if you are not interested in.

2) To explain the mentioned "absurdity", I use Unicode notation. There are different symbols to start and close a quote:
U+0022 Quotation mark (")
U+0027 Apostrophe (')
U+2018 Left Single Quotation mark
U+2019 Right Single Quotation mark
U+201C Left Double Quotation mark
U+201D Right Double Quotation mark
Not distinguishing the opening and closing of a quote is typographically not pleasing. Therefore, it is recommended using one of the latter four instead of first two
The first two Unicode symbols can be coded in ASCII, the latter four can not be coded in ASCII and are normally coded in one of the UTF flavours. UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII and uses more than one byte to code Unicode symbols larger than U+007F.
In some email clients or text editors you can set an option how to treat/code quotation marks.

Jörg

> Am 22.06.2016 um 05:43 schrieb eas lab <lab.eas at gmail.com>:
> 
> John R. Strohm <strohm at airmail.net> wrote:-
>> Jörg Straube, if you want us to see and respond to your messages,
>> you are going to have to disable your secure signature app.
> 
> Yes, these new fad/update absurdities, like replacing the <single quote>
> by 3-bytes must be avoided.
> 
> The amount of redundancy in eg. http is disgusting.
> IMO it comes from the US "infinity frontier" tradition.
> 
> == Chris Glur.
> 
> 
>> On 6/20/16, John R. Strohm <strohm at airmail.net> wrote:
>> Jörg Straube, if you want us to see and respond to your messages, you are
>> going to have to disable your secure signature app.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jörg Straube
>> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 2:47 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [Oberon] ReadInt vs ReadNum
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