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I've experienced the pure pain of character sets and character encodings by trying to write Perl that could countenance the possibility that there might exist characters outside of ASCII. For the programmer it can be hell. So I'm very appreciative of the Mozilla/Firefox developers, because they're web browsers usually get this right. Usually. So I can look at Japanese text, and all the most obscure kanji get displayed perfectly. But why is it that the opening single-quote (‘) eludes my web browser? Every other strange character it can display perfectly, but not U+2018. It is the one simple character that comes out as a box. Firefox seems to have some sort of blind spot for that particular glyph. My hate is dampened, though, by the joy of discovering optical mice. All those years of my mouse being gunked up and refusing to move to the one piece of screen space I most want to point at. But a cheap optical mouse makes life worth living again... ahhhh, point, point, drag, ... pure luxury. -- --- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ --- "I tried to fling my shadow at the moon, The while my blood leapt with a wordless song." -- Theodore Roethke
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