Posted by NRen2k5 on 02/08/07 22:18

Jolly Roger wrote:
> 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! : )

Well, I feel compelled to point out to Mac users when their software
fucks up, because so many of them seem to have the notion in their head
that Macs and Mac software are infallible.

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