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Richard Noeckel <Shroud_of_kung_fu@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Sooooooooo, here’s a question for any independent LEGO groups out there…Does
> anybody know of an independent LEGO group situated in Ontario CANADA,
> preferably in Toronto??? I know of the NELUG (NewEngland Lego Users Group) and
> I’ve seen the Vancouver LEGO group, but I’ve never herd of, or seen an
Urg. It may not be obvious to those of you viewing this message with MS
Windows, but the above message isn't ascii text (or ISO 8859-1 Latin-1,
either -- even though the header claims it is!). It's Microsoft's
non-standard [1] character set. This makes the message look pretty weird
when viewed on a non-MS system -- all of the apostrophes show up as question
marks (or don't show up at all).
Since asking everyone to not use Microsoft products to read LUGnet is
probably a bit harsh [2], Todd, how about automatically scanning for this
and correcting it when messages are posted?
There's an already existing tool:
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/>
(That page also has more good info on the problem.)
[1] and pretty much overtly evil -- there's no good reason to do this other
than to balkanize the internet.
[2] personal feelings aside
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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