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Re: Fixed! ($Here's the Deal$)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 10 Aug 2002 14:56:43 GMT
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Cary Clark wrote:
<SNIPPER!>
> So merely composing your message in a word processor can generate character
> codes that won't necessarily display correctly everywhere.
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> Unfortunately, there is no way to know if the characters on the screen
> belong to 1252, Latin-1 or ASCII without just knowing.
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> Flame throwers, please note that I did not come here to praise Richard or
> blame him. I'm simply suggesting that this is not a simple issue.
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 simple text editor will do?) using the
System Font. When copied and pasted into a NG reader posting or the web interface,
it should come across as plain text.
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 | | Re: Fixed! ($Here's the Deal$)
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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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| | Re: Fixed! ($Here's the Deal$)
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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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