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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-10-17 08:55]: > Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and some unsung idiot at Adobe all > independantly came up with the idea of cramming "smart quites" > into the character set, all in different ways. I’m sending neither MacRoman nor Windows-1252 (either of which would be a massively hateful thing to do), so this doesn’t apply. Prior to Unicode it was quite customary to do what they did, too. Just another reason to put a bullet in all the 8-bit charsets. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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