Dibs on year-clipping in the 3rd Millennium

[Mark Mandel]

Oh hell, I should've expected MIME to chew up Unicode and crap it out. So
much for real angle brackets.

…and misread <'14> as day-of-month.

*Whoops, I think I misread you there about chronology.

(Incidentally, I don't think it's kerning so much as variable-width font
that makes
<(14)>
more compact than
<2014>
I've just zoomed-in my own screen view by a factor of 2 or 4, and I see no
kerning in this message.)

Mark


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:32 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> MM: <<
> =E2=80=8B. . .
>  misread =3DE2=3D80=3DB9'14=3DE2=3D80=3DBA as day-of-month. *Whoops, I
> thin=
> k I misread
> you there about chronology. (Incidentally, I don't think it's kerning so
> much as variable-width font that makes =3DE2=3D80=3DB9(14)=3DE2=3D80=3DBA
> m=
> ore compact
> than =3DE2=3D80=3DB92014=3DE2=3D80=3DBA>>
> WB:  I'll need to know the settings on your Captain Midnight decoder ring
> to facilitate decryption.
>

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