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Re: Fixed! ($Here's the Deal$)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:43:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Thomas Stangl writes:
> Cary Clark wrote:
> <SNIPPER!>
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> > So merely composing your message in a word processor can generate character
> > codes that won't necessarily display correctly everywhere.
> >
> > ...
> > I'm simply suggesting that this is not a simple issue.
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> 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.
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 browser
editor, it isn't easy to know which special characters will be readable by
nearly everyone if you or your localization knows how to generate those
characters (e.g. 'Milton Train Works™' can't be read by everyone, while '1.0
± 0.2' should be fine.)
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 | | Re: Fixed! ($Here's the Deal$)
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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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| | Re: Fixed! ($Here's the Deal$)
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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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