At 10:39 AM 3/6/2003 -0500, Nicholas Bodley wrote:

2003-03-06 00:08:12, i18n <i18n@...> wrote

>  %50 is either "leet-speek", or MIT grads or wannabees with
more than a bit of insight...

I had attributed it to the use of [%] as a character in URLs to
signify that the following two digits were to be taken as a code
point; for instance, if you want to include a space code in a[n]
URL, you represent it as %20 , iirc.

If you can find a single person that can support this argument I will be glad to interview him or her for my web site because it would be a red letter day (no pun intended) for the general wide acceptance of Unicode.

My guess is that most Slashdotters read many more URLs than
"real" text, and think that that's typical usage in other
situations.

Are you sure you are not projecting your image of "those crazy teens" here? :)


Barry Caplan