On 2013-01-14 23:50, gunther Vermeir wrote:
On 01/14/2013 11:45 PM, Ian Abbott wrote:
On 14/01/13 19:32, John Hawkinson wrote:
Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> wrote on Mon, 14 Jan 2013 at 18:16:55 +0000 in <50F44B97.4000808@mev.co.uk>:
with:
# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating # and extending this list, which can be found in # History of legal time in Britain # (<http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/>).
I find this whole bracketting annoying and tough to deal with when copy-pasting URLs. What's wrong with no special markup at all: +1, also for UTF-8 (no BOM) in comments only without the HTML entities / tags etc etc and non-comment parts of the files to be restricted to plain-old ASCII until there is a compelling need.
# History of legal time in Britain # http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/.
Well is that punctuation at the end of your URL part of the URL or not? It's fairly obviously not in that case, but not always so. The brackets help to delimit the URL.
Thunderbird seams to think it's not part :)
Thunderbird seems clever enough to copy URLs that have been line-wrapped, as long as they are bracketed by angle brackets. :) But this is a plain text file and not subject to line wrapping, so the point is moot.
It is for humans in any case, maybe simply "require" to have an URL always need to be surrounded with 2 spaces (U+0020) ?
That works too, and I've done it myself before, but the space before the punctuation looks a little odd. I just happen to prefer angle brackets. Call me weird if you like. ;) -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-