On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
This is a straight apostrophe: ' This is a curly apostrophe: â
Can you explain to me why you or anyone else would bother using a curly apostrophe? Is the key more conveniently placed? Do you just like annoying people who are stuck with stupider interfaces and/or software?
> I get this in Aristotle's emails (gibberish instead of '), Itâs because your mailer sucks. (Are you surprised?)
I'm guessing Pine has no relationship to whether this works; I'm thinking instead that it's the terminal itself. But I don't know, and I'm not likely to spend the hours and hours it would take to find out and then fix every terminal I have.
Because either the webserver/CMS config is borked so it sends the wrong charset (surprise!) or whoever wrote the HTML document used mixed charsets (well, canât blame them too hard, charsets arenât stuff your mum or the ACME Corp CEO should have to to understand).
Grr. It just seems stupid to screw with a character that was already working fine in the lower bits. I feel similarly but not quite as bitter about people who do stupid "smart" quotes, because wow they're bloody annoying to handle with parsing programs. -- That was just a drill of the emergency y2k system. Had this been a real emergency, we would've also dumped a bucket of spiders on you and yelled out "civilization is collapsing!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config-mgmt.blogspot.com
