Posted by Jolly Roger on 02/08/07 15:19

On 2007-02-08 02:27:07 -0600, NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> said:

> TaliesinSoft wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:28:28 -0600, NRen2k5 wrote
>> (in article <vLpyh.46229$3D6.1945537@weber.videotron.net>):
>>
>>> Michelle Steiner wrote:
>>>> In article <Topyh.46212$3D6.1944022@weber.videotron.net>,
>>>> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Please don't try to use curly quotes on Usenet. They don't always work.
>>>>> Stick with pure ASCII.
>>>> I copied and pasted the article without attempting to edit it. I did
>>>> not notice that they had used curly quotes.
>>> It's very noticeable when your newsreader doesn't specify the character
>>> encoding its posting in and the wrong characters are shown on the
>>> receiving end.
>>
>> Interestingly my newsreader, Hogwasher, converted the slanted quotes in
>> Michelle's posting of the Steve Jobs DRM article to upright quotes, the
>> result being that the article was perfectly readable.
>
> In my case, Thunderbird is turning the curly quotes into superscript numbers.

Same for Unison. ...yet somehow I wasn't compelled to bitch and moan
to the rest of CSMS about it! : )

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JR

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