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Re: xkcd: 2018

From wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: xkcd: 2018
Date 2018-01-01 06:40 +0000
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Message-ID <p2cl4r$2sle$2@grapevine.csail.mit.edu> (permalink)
References <p2649p$ca3$1@dont-email.me> <p1utyt.3yt@kithrup.com> <p2ca71$2p81$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu> <p1v2rs.LIM@kithrup.com>

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In article <p1v2rs.LIM@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <p2ca71$2p81$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>,
>Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
>>In article <p1utyt.3yt@kithrup.com>,
>>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>>In article <p1uGru.1H2I@kithrup.com>,
>>>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>>>In article <7400f980-7c11-4379-a598-2a90f80fe57e@googlegroups.com>,
>>>>Kevrob  <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:
>>>>>On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 1:03:38 PM UTC-5, Kevrob wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> [For Keith: 14 F/-10 C.  May get down to 3° F/-16 C tonight.]
>>>>
>>>>>How did that degree sign not get extirpated?! :)
>>>>
>>>>And for me, for whom (as you know, Bob) trn does *not* do any of
>>>>those funny characters, I got 3 ctrl-A degree sign!
>>>
>>>Looking at it again (in trn, not vi) I see it's actually
>>>A-with-a-caret-over-it, not ctrl-A.
>>
>>| iconv -f utf-8 -t iso8859-1
>
>Gesundheit.

If you type that command into trn exactly as written, it will apply
the secret decoder ring and either show you the text as originally
intended, or else give you an error message because the characters in
the article can't be represented on your display.

-GAWollman

-- 
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xkcd: 2018 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2017-12-29 13:16 -0600
  xkcd: 2018 mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2017-12-29 11:32 -0800
    Re: xkcd: 2018 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2017-12-29 11:46 -0800
    Re: xkcd: 2018 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2017-12-29 15:43 -0600
      Re: xkcd: 2018 mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2017-12-29 22:23 -0800
  xkcd: 2018 Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2017-12-29 12:45 -0800
    Re: xkcd: 2018 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2017-12-29 13:19 -0700
      Re: xkcd: 2018 David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 03:37 -0600
    Re: xkcd: 2018 nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2017-12-31 06:59 +0000
    Re: xkcd: 2018 Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-01-02 07:23 -0700
  Re: xkcd: 2018 Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2017-12-29 20:51 -0600
    Re: xkcd: 2018 David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 03:40 -0600
      Re: xkcd: 2018 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2017-12-30 05:22 -0800
        Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-30 15:07 +0000
          Re: xkcd: 2018 William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2017-12-30 12:23 -0800
            Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-30 21:10 +0000
              Re: xkcd: 2018 William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2017-12-31 12:09 -0800
          Re: xkcd: 2018 Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-12-30 20:53 +0000
            Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-30 21:10 +0000
              Re: xkcd: 2018 Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-12-31 07:48 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2017-12-31 01:11 -0800
                Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-31 15:05 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Wolffan <aklwolffan@gmail.com> - 2017-12-31 11:06 -0500
                Re: xkcd: 2018 mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2017-12-31 08:23 -0800
                Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-31 17:26 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2017-12-31 12:23 -0800
                Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-31 17:02 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2017-12-31 10:03 -0800
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2017-12-31 11:35 -0800
                Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-31 21:23 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-01-01 02:08 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) - 2018-01-01 03:33 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-01-01 05:19 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) - 2018-01-01 06:40 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2018-01-01 06:48 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-01-01 18:22 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-01-02 07:33 -0700
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-01-02 15:20 -0500
                Re: xkcd: 2018 wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) - 2018-01-02 22:14 +0000
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-01-03 02:21 -0500
                Re: xkcd: 2018 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-01-02 14:50 -0800
      Re: xkcd: 2018 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2017-12-30 08:23 -0800
  Re: xkcd: 2018 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-01-03 08:06 -0800

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