Reply to note from "wbass" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ("wbass") Mon, 9
Dec 2024 06:57:37 +0000 (UTC)
> I think I could have used caret rather then tilde [in XYENC/XYDEC],
> and it would have been a much better choice.
I had mixed feelings at the time. On the one hand, the invisible tilde made encoded matter more
readable in non-eXPanded views; on the other, it made the encoding somewhat less transparent in
those views. On balance, I tend to agree with you that the caret would have been a better choice. My
problem with changing it now is that I have 15 years' worth of XYENCoded stuff -- mainly, encrypted
text -- that uses the tilde, which I'd still need the current XYDEC to decode. Unless the new XYDEC
were able to detect which encoding was used, which seems iffy.
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Carl Distefano
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