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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for November 2007
The November 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the December 2007 issue. Dr. Cash 01:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007
The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the January 2008 issue. Dr. Cash 01:04, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter
Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 04:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
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April GA Newsletter
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WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter
The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Simon Bird Article
Thanks for picking up on my grammar :) --Killercatt1 (talk) 14:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Sorry about the delay. AWB has been having a few issues lately. Here is the august issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 20:39, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, I am reverting your changes in the strcat article for the following reasons:

- strcat is able to handle certain fundamental as well as common errors, such as NULL parameters. - The first loop in the illustrated implementation is supposed to advance the index i to point to the end of the dest buffer. Your change made the code erroneous - surely not a good example for newbies. - char str1[] = "Hello,"; is the single most basic array declaration/definition/initialization statement, where one needs not declare the size of the array. Explicitly specifying the array dimensions is often a cause for errors, due to ill-formed or unterminated strings. - Caller-callee conventions (preconditions-postconditions) are fundamental in the definition of an interface. It's important one knows not only what a function does, but under what conditions and with what guarantees.

I hope you will give room for discussion before making hasty changes to an article. The talk page for the article, or my talk page are acceptable areas to do so.

Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikefoo (talk • contribs) 09:30, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

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Nomination of Pat Korte for deletion
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Issues with UTF-8B
Your latest change on UTF-8 page reads:

UTF-8B is lossless if the UTF-8 encoding of these error code points is considered invalid so they convert to 3 errors. However the resulting UTF-16 cannot be modified before converting back, as a sequence of "errors" may convert to a valid UTF-8 sequence! This makes this scheme much less useful than it may first appear, for instance you cannot use it to make a loss-less UTF-8 editor from a loss-less UTF-16 editor).

Please elaborate a bit. In particular it's hard to get what are "these error code points" you are referring to and the notion of a lossless UTF-8/UTF-16 editor and their relations comes seemingly from nowhere causing a confusion.

Besides I believe a "lossless encoding" in this context means a reversible encoding: i.e. a transformation exists to undo the encoding and recover the initial data no matter what. However since we still produce an invalid UTF-8 though slightly less invalid (surrogates are prohibited in UTF-8) we may encounter some problems if another encoding conversion is applied, i.e. UTF-8 --> UTF-16.

Mejedi (talk) 01:17, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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CESU-8 vs utf8mb3
Hi Spitzak, I added comments to the UTF-8 Talk page regarding your reverts to the changes I made. Would you mind responding? Thanks. 68.6.78.143 (talk) 15:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC) Ivanxqz (talk) 15:31, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Code page tables on Wikipedia no longer show Unicode equivalents contrary to the pages' claims
The Wikipedia pages for code pages state "The following table shows (code page). Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent.". This sentence is placed right in front of each table.

Removing the Unicode equivalents from the code tables does not serve any purpose. It invalidates the Wikipedia pages' content.

Many of us heavily relied on the Unicode equivalents U+xxxx listed in the code page tables, which are now no longer visible. I strongly argue that the Unicode U+xxxx equivalents should be rendered visually in the tables, in addition to the (linked) character graphic. Removing the U+xxxx is bad for developers who need to map code page character definitions to Unicode, e.g. to update legacy software. There are plenty of non-Wikipedia resources that show code page tables with Unicode equivalents. Because of this change, I'm sure very few will continue using these Wikipedia tables as a reference and rather prefer external resources.

Sorry for the rant, but this mass change is disappointing and removes critical information for no reason.

FAR for Pericles
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Revert on Antikytheria mechanism article
You’ve reverted an edit that I’d made to the antikytheria mechanism article, and I don't understand your explanation. You say that "hours are not used" yet Please explain these two things, namely why you don’t believe the cited facts about the hours measurement, and why you have justified your reversion of my edit by stating that your intent was to do something which the reversion does not accomplish. I appreciate the attention you apply to my concerns. —catsmoke talk 19:43, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) the device has markings for 8 hours and 16 hours, which coincides with the length of the salient cycle, and this is supported in the source material;
 * 2) my edit did not establish the context of the usage of hours, my edit merely clarified the language of an edit that had established this—thus your intent (to counter the idea that a measurement of hours is relevant) is not addressed, as you have left the heart of that idea untouched

Null character
Hi.

Not sure why you wrote "nonsense, useless and duplicate link".


 * 1) Added means for utilization in Windows and other forms of representation such as Hex and Base 64
 * 2) Added another verified attack
 * 3) What is nonsense here?

I would have appreciated if we talked before you undo everything and discard.

Kaerez (talk) 18:10, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Control_character&diff=1216386232&oldid=1216385626
It would be nice if you'd give a reason for a revert. Utonsal (talk) 18:13, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You're complaining to the wrong user - the person who did that revert was - and the reason is that the hexadecimal values from \x40 to \x5f have the 8-bit values 01000000 to 01011111, so those values are described as 010xxxxx.  Those are the 7-bit values 10xxxxx, which is what was there before your edit.
 * I.e., the 8-bit values have the upper 3 bits 010, but the 7-bit values have the upper 2 bits 10, and what was showing in the article was a 7-bit value, so it should have the upper bits 10. That bullet point was presumably using 7-bit rather than 8-bit notation because ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding (which, when stored in an 8-bit byte, has the 8th bit 0). Guy Harris (talk) 00:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had figured it out, but felt affronted by a mute revert. --Utonsal (talk) 20:35, 25 April 2024 (UTC)