From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Dec 30 2000 - 09:34:54 CST
Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk) writes:
> In <B6710F0F.BE5B%planb@newsreaders.com> "J.B. Moreno" <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
> > NOTE: Backspace was historically used for underlining, done by an
> > underscore (ASCII 95), a backspace, and a character, repeated for each
> > character that should be underlined. Posters are warned that underlining
> > is not available on all output devices or supported by all reading agents
> > and is best not relied on for essential meaning.
>
> OK, I have noted that text as an alternative possibility. Further opinions?
I prefer:
NOTE: Backspace (ASCII 8) was historically used for underlining, done by
an underscore (ASCII 95), a backspace, and a character, repeated for each
character that should be underlined. However, this usage is declared
obsolete by this standard and posters are warned that many reading agents
does not support this feature and only display the backspace with a
generic "unknown-character" symbol.
From the "(ASCII 8)" follows that I presume that backspace is excluded
from the first list of exceptions.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se