[tz] TZ file comments UTF-8? Bastardized HTML? (was Re: Busingen revisited)

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Mon Jan 14 22:45:40 UTC 2013


On 14/01/13 19:32, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote on Mon, 14 Jan 2013
> at 18:16:55 +0000 in <50F44B97.4000808 at mev.co.uk>:
>
>> with:
>>
>> # Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating
>> # and extending this list, which can be found in
>> # History of legal time in Britain
>> # (<http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/>).
>
> I find this whole bracketting annoying and tough to deal with
> when copy-pasting URLs. What's wrong with no special markup at all:
>
> # History of legal time in Britain
> # http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/.

Well is that punctuation at the end of your URL part of the URL or not? 
  It's fairly obviously not in that case, but not always so.  The 
brackets help to delimit the URL.

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