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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > This is a straight apostrophe: ' > This is a curly apostrophe: =E2=80=99 Can you explain to me why you or anyone else would bother using a curly apostrophe? Is the key more conveniently placed? Do you just like annoyin= g people who are stuck with stupider interfaces and/or software? > > I get this in Aristotle's emails (gibberish instead of '), > > It=E2=80=99s because your mailer sucks. (Are you surprised?) 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 likel= y to spend the hours and hours it would take to find out and then fix every terminal I have. > 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=E2=80=99t blame them too hard, charsets aren=E2= =80=99t > stuff your mum or the ACME Corp CEO should have to to understand). Grr. 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. --=20 That was just a drill of the emergency y2k system. Had this been a real emergency, we would've also dumped a bucket of spiders on you and yelled out "civilization is collapsing!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config-mgmt.blogspot.comThere's stuff above here
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