academic Unicode experts

Today I find an academic Unicode expert who has the very errors he warns of in his own web page and who fails to declare the char‐encoding of that page : Unicode quote marks !

I suggest supplementing what he says with the advice on Unicode quotation in languages other than English :  wp.

But if the PC is not a typewriter – and only programmers need ASCII ` ' and " – then why not TEXT keyboards for users and APL‐style programmer keyboards for those who script, hack and program ?

As for hyphen and dash, those topics are linked in the wp article in its right‐side panel.

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First Nations agglutinative languages

Is there First Nations people with an agglutinative language that is teaching Japanese as a foreign language?

Is there a school in Japan teaching Cree or Blackfoot ?

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Pale Moon browser 20.2 released

Here is the list from palemoon.org

• (CVE-2013-1692) Fix for the inclusion of body data in an XMLHttpRequest HEAD request, making cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via a crafted web site more difficult.
• (CVE-2013-1697) Fix to restrict use of DefaultValue for method calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges.
• (CVE-2013-1694) Fix to properly handle the lack of a wrapper, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
• Fix to prevent arbitrary code execution from the profiler developer tool.
• Fix for a crash when rapidly reloading pages.
• Fix for cross-document selections.
• Fixes for several crashes in JavaScript.
• Fixes for several memory safety hazards and uncommon memory leaks.

The best browser for Penzu.com journals on Windows 7 ?

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configure Notepad++ for CoffeeScript

Adding CoffeeScript support to your Notepad++ editor may require a search for the user config file location.

My Windows 7 userDefineLang.xml file was in

C:\Users\*YourUserName*\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++

which was not where I expected.

The install folder has a langs.model.xml file and the ./plugins/APIs folder has many language XML files. Why not also keep userDefineLang.xml there ? A brute-force upgrading issue ?
The Notepad++ install program already offers choices with regard to AppData ...

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Google search broken

This morning my  Google search on

Unicon coexpression HTTP 

returns NO "most relevant results" - pages of results flash up but then disappear - even the very Unicon PDF that I was looking for  - that link flashes up and then Pooffff !

#GoogleBusted #MostRelevantResults #GoogleSearch #Google #ImprovedTesting

Gnu Smalltalk st prompt

oh my gawd - I am at the >st prompt running gst !

Surely building Gnu Smalltalk is the WORST thing about moving to a new flavour of linux !

I gave up trying to get a headless St/X to run on this tiny CentOS VPS - but I still have hope for a headless Pharo.

Otherwise I am doomed to Ruby !!!  Or risk being ingested by Python !!!

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organelle, pebble, straw, plow

If, in the course of evolution, species A incorporated members of B as organelles, how is the problem thus solved different from the members of Aves species C ingesting selected pebbles or members of Corvus selecting and bending a straw, stalk or stick  ?

Heidegger's chief error may have been his faux insight into tekne (technique, Technik.) Husserl's second bit of folly was to follow Heidegger on the telescope.

Compare : a philosophical anthropology of play, dance and concept.

[ the chorus heard in response : "Heidegger was not doing philosophical anthropology !" ]

What offended Heidegger were the diesel tractors in the fields.  He took the trains to see and talk with Jaspers on Jaspers' wife's small inheritance (from a business venture?) and would one day take an aeroplane.

[ the chorus : Heidegger and Husserl were on a hike together ... ]

When the hike began, Husserl was going on a hike with Heidegger, but when they returned, Heidegger had taken Husserl somewhere the old professor need not have gone - or gone along with ( mit-fahren ) ...

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