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In article <10fdlro$fv81$1@dont-email.me>,
Nuno Silva  <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>On 2025-11-16, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On 16 Nov 2025 20:19:12 GMT, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>
>>> Lack of utf-8 would be an issue for some things, but mostly not.
>>
>> Without UTF-8, you could not have “€” or “©” or “±” or
>those curly quotes.
>
>Those three are all in iso8859-15 and in Mac OS Roman...
>
>And I'd guess only the first isn't in latin1.
>
>As for curly quotes, I think not having these might actually be a
>feature :-P
>

Bingo on the "smart" quotes!  The bane of Outlook cut & paste...
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