Larry Masinter

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I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean by "use Gacha as the base", because I'm thinking of charsets as they are used in Internet protocols. The Internet Assigned...

I don't think the MCCS definition needs to talk about control-X or even Gacha 10 except as a footnote. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/30618/why-did-early-ascii-have-%e2%86%90-and-%e2%86%91-but-not-%e2%86%93-or-%e2%86%92 might be a good reference, though.

The only citation that I can see is Sproull's 1977 'INTERLISP DISPLAY PRIMITIVES' PARC "Blue and White". this might be in the Xerox PARC chm archies.

I think there's a problem and some choices for what to do about them. BUT I'm not sure the premis is correct: > Currently, if MAKEFILE lower-cases the clispwords when...

I'm a little worried about the proliferation of short commands 'cdn' that are not of widespread utility. I know each is relatively harmless, but .... who would use this feature?...

I think this issue is to document the use of XQuartz options to emulate 3-button mouse. https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/fDTc7yRxOiM/m/-Dh2FE8gBgAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

I got a similar error running a loadup / do_hcfiles script. I haven't tracked down the situation. The error happened running with open PR's merged, but I didn't try it...

on Linux/wsl there is no "xclip", and I don't understand how it would work. You need the OS Type of the X-server, not the medley process.

the days of non-UTF8 are over (except for legacy cases like ours). The Unicode problem I'm worried about is the possibility of Lisp doing normalization when reading in character mode,...