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* Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-10-17 17:05]: > I'm guessing Pine has no relationship to whether this works; > I'm thinking instead that it's the terminal itself. But I > don't know, and I'm not likely to spend the hours and hours it > would take to find out and then fix every terminal I have. If it was the terminal then the character would show up screwy, but it wouldn't get mangled in your reply. > It just seems stupid to screw with a character that was already > working fine in the lower bits. I feel similarly but not quite > as bitter about people who do stupid "smart" quotes, because > wow they're bloody annoying to handle with parsing programs. What I'm using *is* a smart quote, I just think that's a stupid name. The straight quotes were a typewriter invention, along with monospace fonts. Someday computers will catch up to all the features that paper had about 400 years ago. PS.: this mail with straight quotes for your pleasure. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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