Re: [COFF] [TUHS] "7th Edition UNIX TM?? Summary" => "â??7th Edition UNIX â?? Summaryâ => â?????7th Edition UNIX â?????? Summaryâ??? - COFF

19 Apr 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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