Pan T. Hose's Journal: Slashdot Forces Typographical Errors

Somewhen after this post and before this one, Slashdot started to silently convert dashes to double hyphens, apostrophes and quotation marks to single and double prime or inch signs, and removing certain characters completely, like the euro symbol (the dollar symbol works fine). This is a big step backwards. I strongly object to silently introducing typographical errors in my articles. We cannot tolerate it in one of the most important medium of our times. While the most fundamental aspect, i.e. the quality of the content of the texts published here is even more than very satisfactory, let us not forget about the presentation of said content if we are ever to be considered a serious journalist community by the rest of the world. I hope this problem will be fixed soon.

Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.

As a former typographer...

[BandwidthHog]

I spent years typing inch and foot marks when communicating online. Last year I decided that enough of the userbase could handle the entire ASCII character set, so I went back to using full English punctuation. I've heard from some people on The Dot that get control codes or HTML entities in my posts, and have a few friends that get extra question marks in their IM clients, but nothing too disruptive.

I didn't know about this latest change, and frankly, don't give a fuck. I'll punctuate correctly and the re

Excuse me..

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Hello, I've seen you posting around /. and would like to say that you're very crafty for a troll.