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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 21 Aug 1998.
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Munged apostrophes in articles

Munged apostrophes in articles

alt.ascii-art · 1 message · 21 Aug 1998
Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> 21 Aug 1998 00:00 · raw headers · report 
On 18 Aug 1998 23:02:37 -0500, ah...@chinet.chinet.com (Adam H. Kerman) wrote:

>In article <slr...@rama.escnd1.sdca.home.com>,
>David M. Cook <dav...@home.com> wrote:
>>This is a problem I've seen more and more in the last few months: some other
>>code like 0x92 insttead of 0x27 in place of apostrophes.  Since the
>>culprits see the apostrophes with their software it's hard to convince them
>>there is a problem.
>
>>Any suggestions on what is causing this, at least so I have some ammunition
>>when trying to get people to fix the problem?  Or perhaps there's a
>>technical fix?

>Several browsers that allow posting to news use incorrect character code
>sets, including Microsoft products and the latest Netscape.

Oh Yikes!  That's just what we need.  :-(

>The technical fix is to beat these people over the head till they use real
>clients for news and e-mail.

How does one do that effectively?

Bye,

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