Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems?

From	William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems?
Date	2016-03-17 15:54 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ncejvp$6ek$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2016-03-17, Anonymous Remailer (austria) <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> wrote:
>
> Unknown <...@gmail.com> [U]:
> U> catering for japanese and korean and Arabic, Cyrillic,
> U> Hindi ...  via Unicode is great.  But messing ASCII for
> U> ENGLISH by replacing the quote with 3 bytes is ABSURD!!
>
> Open a book/webpage or two about typography.
> Hint: opening and closing quote characters can (and in some cases
> must) be different even in ENGLISH publications.

Yes, IF one regards usenet posts as "publications". I had always thought
that usenet posts were informal messages, where the content took
precedence over beauty of format.

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Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2015-12-26 16:30 +0100
  Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-12-26 21:48 +0000
    Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-12-27 00:06 +0000
      Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Caver1 <caver1@inthemud.org> - 2015-12-26 19:24 -0500
        Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-03 05:27 +0000
          Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-01-02 22:05 -0800
    Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 09:42 +0000
      Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2016-03-17 16:30 +0100
        Re: How do *nix machos handle M$ problems? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 15:54 +0000

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