From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au> To : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:16:21 +0930 (CST)
Hi,
> 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 ?
Whet these are are the Curly replacements for the single and double quote
characters. This can be turned off under auto format menu. They are the
only two I know of, but if you want to be sure of removing them, when you
save your text file, save it as MS DOS text, or don't use word to do your
text file editing.
cya
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