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Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Sun Apr 19 15:20:23 AEST 2020


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On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 at 18:19:57 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, Don Hopkins wrote:
>
>> I love how in a discussion of how difficult it was to publish a book on
>> Unix with the correct punctuation characters 42 years ago, we still
>> can???t even quote the title of the book in a discussion about Unix
>> without the punctuation characters degrading and mutating each round
>> trip.
>
> Well, I'm not the one here using Windoze...

Arguably Microsoft does it better than Unix.  Most of the issues are
related to the character encoding.  And as Don's headers say:

  X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.60.0.2.5)

I agree with Don.  I use mutt, which has many advantages, but sane
character encoding isn't one of them.

Greg
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