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  From: O'Connor, Steven <Steven.O'Connor@boral.com.au>
  To  : 'linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au' <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:38:36 +0930

MS redefines ASCII

I have just noticed that a lot of simple text files are being stuffed up by
certain MS applications.

With the apostrophe character (0x27), things like Outlook, notepad, write,
word, etc are writing a 0x92 into the output stream rather than a 0x27.

Any reasonable program (Netscape, vi, emacs, old DOS edit) has no idea how
to deal with a 0x92.

Outlook, word, etc render the 0x92 exactly the same as a 0x27, and therefore
I cannot see that this 'MS-enhancement' adds any value to the 'enhanced'
document (except of course to stuff up the viewing of that document inside
Netscape).

Question:
- Are there any other stupid characters like this that you are aware of   ?

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