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* Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-10-17 08:05]: > What I don't understand is what stinking moron decided that > other character sets would use a different coding for the > apostrophe character. This is a straight apostrophe: ' This is a curly apostrophe: ’ > I get this in Aristotle's emails (gibberish instead of '), It’s because your mailer sucks. (Are you surprised?) (It might have been the sending mailer too, but I know my mail configuration is correct.) > and I get it all the time in Firefox on web sites, and it just > doesn't make sense to me. Because either the webserver/CMS config is borked so it sends the wrong charset (surprise!) or whoever wrote the HTML document used mixed charsets (well, can’t blame them too hard, charsets aren’t stuff your mum or the ACME Corp CEO should have to to understand). Software configured to use anything other than UTF-8 (or, at the very least another UTF-*) is hateful. I can’t wait until single-byte charsets are a thing of the past. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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