Posted by Jolly Roger on 02/08/07 15:23

On 2007-02-08 09:19:54 -0600, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@null.org> said:

> 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! : )

For that matter, Google Groups does the same thing:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.system/browse_thread/thread/e7eca97d9c42dd2c/f153b81a0bebab53>

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JR

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