I saw this in my feed reader this morning and my first thought was "How do you get a Urinary Tract Infection in an OS?"
Same here, at first I thought Gruber was using it ironically since he doesn't seem very fond of his own creation. But no, it really is "UTI."
There was an article in the top page yesterday complaining about acronyms. I can see its point now because UTI means something else in my family.
I was married to a Registered Nurse. Enough said.
Who here remembers when MCI was myocardial infarction?
It became MI after, well, you know ...
Despite having nothing common with I thought about the same.
I still hate it for needing a two line feeds to get a newline.
But yeah, while I didn't encounter any encoding problems with md it would help somewhat for everyone to expect Unicode.