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(...) Hmmmm. I agree that it's pretty horrendous for plaintext, but I think that so-called "smart quotes" are a pretty great thing for HTML (as long as the correct standard character entities are output, of course! :) when done properly. What (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
 
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do we need a admin.geek group? (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
 
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(...) My understanding is that the ISO Latin 1 8-bit character set reserves those characters (among others) for control codes. I can't actually check, because the standard isn't available online (paper version costs about 56 CHF....). But this is (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)
 
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PS: if my tone seems annoyed or even antagonistic in the past few messages, it's not at anyone here -- it's at Microsoft. I try to avoid MS-bashing as much as I can, but this is blatently evil [1]. It's like the Kerberos thing, but arguably worse -- (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.general)

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