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(...) [I've manually translated the special characters to what I see.] (...) Yes, it is your mess. You *know* you are making postings that show up bad for many readers, and yet you choose to continue to post that way. (...) Its called "standards". (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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[snip] I'm just stepping in here as a friendly reminder that jabs at others tend to result in unwanted arguments which can quickly get out of control. I believe you've each made your feelings known on the typography issue. Perhaps it'd be wise to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Suzanne D. Rich writes: ... (...) I should know better, but I can't help jumping in on this. I've written a fair amount of code that deals with character sets, so I understand the technical issue in detail. Chris Gray is (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Cary Clark wrote: <SNIPPER!> (...) Actually, it is somewhat simple. Unless Richard uses a totally bizarre System Font, all he needs to do is compose in Notepad instead of Word (honestly, who would waste the overhead of Word on NG posts when any (...) (22 years ago, 10-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One reason to use Word instead of Notepad is spell checking. The choice of font has nothing to do with the character codes, and does not affect the keyboard character map. Even if you compose the message entirely using the newsreader or the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yep! If I use one of the machines in our house and switch the Russian localisation on (we actually have one that has it installed, we installed it for Yulia when she first got here and was sending a lot of notes back home in Cyrillic), and (...) (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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