Firefox, it's a bloody quotation mark

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From: Geoff Richards
Subject: Firefox, it's a bloody quotation mark
Date: 01:36 on 21 May 2004
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.

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--- 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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