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Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ? in posts
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Rhialto |
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Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ? in posts |
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Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:15:00 +0200 |
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On Fri 21 Sep 2012 at 10:58:31 +0000, DLSauers wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:36:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > Short answer: it's an encoding problem. Some doofus is probably pasting
> > so-called "Smart Quotes" from Microsoft Word into their post, and their
> > news reader program (or Google Groups *spit*) is not adjusting the
> > encoding as it should.
>
> I can probably guess which piece of steaming cruft generates this
> nonsense...
The problem with Microsoft software is that it *often* claims to produce
Latin-1 encoding (aka ISO-8859-1) but actually produces Windows codepage
1252 ("windows-1252"). Those are mostly the same, apare from the control
characters from 128 to 159 (C1, I believe that range is called) which
Microsoft has filled with cruft like the aforementioned "smart quotes".
If it were really Unicode that was produced, I believe that Pan would
have no problem with it.
-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you
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- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, (continued)
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Daniel Rahn, 2012/09/21
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Brian Morrison, 2012/09/21
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, David Shochat, 2012/09/21
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Paul Crawford, 2012/09/22
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Joe Zeff, 2012/09/22
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Steven D'Aprano, 2012/09/23
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Paul Crawford, 2012/09/23
- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Zan Lynx, 2012/09/23
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- Re: [Pan-users] Annoying ' in posts, Steven D'Aprano, 2012/09/23
Re: [Pan-users] Annoying in posts, Lacrocivious Acrophosist, 2012/09/21
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