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  From: Tim Ansell <ansell@chariot.net.au>
  To  : Linux User Group <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 05:44:30 +0930

Re: MS redefines ASCII

I have never had this problem at all.
I use Notepad, write and word quite allot and have never had any problems with
using them under emacs, netscape, dos edit/qbasic at all.
One strange thing is that composer instead of using <br> is uses the funny &
followed by a couple of other letters.
I have never used Outlook or FrontPage, i think FrontPage is EVIL!!!!! I have
never had a reason to use outlook at all.

Tim


Glen Turner wrote:

> 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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