Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael S Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 13:32:15 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: <20250409133215.00005109@yahoo.com> References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <20250407211216.00006238@yahoo.com> <20250408205345.0000497c@yahoo.com> <20250409122340.00005363@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:32:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="644d447233835e2adaf6a2a915809f6d"; logging-data="464763"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+V27uzRjjq9OiOZGk9FPuOqZoYCIIFW6E=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:XM8tJggH8t+m7f5IJr2WTn8RLXA= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.19.1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 3167 On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 10:08:50 -0000 (UTC) Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 12:23:40 +0300 > Michael S wibbled: > >On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 09:01:34 -0000 (UTC) > >Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 20:53:45 +0300 > >> Michael S wibbled: > >> >> "myriad" means 10,000, coming directly from the Greek. But the > >> >> word is usually used to mean "a great many" or "more than you > >> >> can count". (It's like the use of "40" in the Bible - I guess > >> >> the ancient Greeks were better at counting than the ancient > >> >> Canaanites.) > >> >>=20 > >> > > >> > > >> >In the Bible? > >> >Or, may be, in imprecise translations of the Bible that confuse > >> >the=20 word =D7=A8=D7=91=D7=91=D7=94 that means 10000 with > >> >remotely similar word = =D7=90=D7=A8=D7=91=D7=A2=D7=99=D7=9D that > >> >means 40 ? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >=D7=A8=D7=91=D7=91=D7=94=20 > >> > >> Any chance of using utf8 rather than whatever the hell encoding > >> this is. > >> > > > >It seems, UTF8 is the only option available in the editor of my > >newsreader agent. Could it be that your user agent or your usenet > >provider is at fault? > > Thats definately not uft8. Seems something is converting it to quoted > printable encoding. > Message headers indicated that it is UTF-8 encoded as quoted printable. I don't know (and don't want to know) too much about usenet mechanics, but it seems to me that decent newsreader should decode it back into UTF-8.