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O. J. Matthijs Jolles
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Dear Ringess:

Reference your message regarding copyright, I am the author and copyright holder of the information I supplied from my book, Christopher Bassford, Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), and I am the owner and editor of www.clausewitz.com, where the full text of the book is displayed at http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/Bassford/TOC.htm. I have sent an e-mail to Wikipedia Permissions to this effect from my clausewitz.com e-mail. I actually rewrote the piece substantially for Wikipedia, though obviously not enough to escape your eagle eyes. I have also attempted to wikify it, insofar as I understand your requirements. I retain copyright on the book, but freely give you whatever permissions you wish to display the sections I contributed to Wikipedia under the GFDL. I inserted a note to that effect at the end of my contribution on Jolles. Please let me know if this is adequate.

BTW, I too am interested in fractals and in nonlinearity generally, and this interest connects to Clausewitz. Alan Beyerchen wrote a great piece explaining the value of interpreting Clausewitz's theories through the lenses of nonlinearity and Compleity theory--this is perhaps IMHO the most important article published on Clausewitz in the past twenty years. See Alan D. Beyerchen, "Clausewitz, Nonlinearity and the Unpredictability of War," International Security, 17:3 (Winter, 1992), pp. 59-90. This article is also available in French: "Clausewitz: Non Linéarité et Imprévisibilité de la Guerre," Theorie, Littérature, Enseignement, 12 (1994), pp165-98.

Battle of Waterloo
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Fonts for Linear B/Mycenaean Greek
Hi, you've emailed me asking for guidance on viewing Mycenaean Greek/Linear B characters. This is the relevant help page/guide; go to the relevant section, download font(s) & install. Feel free to ask for more help if more is needed. Thanatos|talk|contributions 01:19, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi again, replying to your second email: You said that the situation has greatly improved but that there are still real glitches. I do not know whether I could help unless you elaborate on what those glitches/problems are. Thanatos|talk|contributions 13:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi again, replying again: Please explain in writing and in detail -and if you also need, as you've said, to post image-attachments, use some image site like this, copying also the link thereto- what seems to be the problem, so that a solution might be provided, if possible. PS Please respond here and not by email. Thanatos|talk|contributions 13:01, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

From CBassford1: OK, I created a page at http://www.clausewitz.com/CButility/LinearBissue.htm that shows the issues.
 * If the posted screenshots represent what you're seeing now then nothing is fixed because all of what you're seeing "right" is pictures/images of text, not fonts/text per se; e.g. on screenshot 3, the GOAT ideogram inside the table is text, while the RAM one is an image (see wikicode or simply hover your mouse over these two).1
 * You haven't elaborated on what's your setup, i.e. OS etc.. Anyway in short, if you've indeed installed the necessary fonts (try also installing damase and code2001), try seeing whether changing encoding/font settings on your browser fixes anything (e.g. set UTF-8 as default) but to be frank the only possible solution or 'solution' I've found is trying a different web-browser (or OS+Browser). Afaict proper rendering of these scripts is OS+Browser dependent; e.g. I recall (I no longer use this setup) that 32bit Firefox on Win 7 32bit rendered them fine; but neither 32bit nor 64bit Firefox (as of v.44) renders them properly (basically not at all; only said squares) on a Win 7 SP1 64bit setup; nor for that matter - on said OS - does IE 11; but Chrome (64bit v.48....) does. Moreover, sometimes there is simply no solution at all (at least that I know of), an example thereof being Android phones in which case it's simply better to forget it; Android does not support - in most cases and system-wide on non-rooted devices - proper polytonic Greek rendering, let alone Linear B.
 * 1. On the other hand, on screenshot 1, the lack of a ji character is not a problem because there is no relevant syllabogram and hence no wikicode (contrary to this, there is a ju; see under Untranscribed and doubtful values)... Thanatos|talk|contributions 21:02, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

CBassford1: Stupid of me not to notice those were graphics, not characters. Running Windows 10. OK, next try. I downloaded/installed the code2001 and mph_2b_damase fonts. This had absolutely no effect in FireFox 43.0.4 or MS Explorer 11. However, I installed Chrome and it works. See the bottom screenshot at. http://www.clausewitz.com/CButility/LinearBissue.htm
 * So the same problem persists in Windows 10? Nice regression; yet another reason not to go - MS/OS-wise, that is - beyond Win 7... :D I recall trying to find a solution when migrating from Win 7 32bit to Win 7 64bit; from what I recall, it seems that 1.MS changed something system-wise, 2. both IE and Firefox pull somehow the relevant font/encoding settings from the OS while Chrome doesn't; hence... Unfortunately the state of inter alia ancient scripts rendering does not seem to be a high priority to most code developers and relevant companies; see yet another example I've run into. Anyway yes, that's the proper rendering so it seems that you're now fine; glad I was able to help. CU Thanatos|talk|contributions 06:31, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

CBassford1 Thanks, Thanatos666! You'd think something called "Unicode" would have made this a non-problem. Glad to know you're on the case.