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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : 'linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au' <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:21:52 +0930

Re: MS redefines ASCII

O'Connor, Steven wrote:
> 
> 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.
...
> Question:
> - Are there any other stupid characters like this that you are aware of?

For the full list see:

  DEMORONISER  Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML

  http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

Yet another attempt to "embrace and extend" :-)

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 Fax: (08) 8303 4400         The University of Adelaide  5005
 Email: glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au           South Australia

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