| Jeff Abrahamson on 11 Jun 2004 14:25:03 -0000 |
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Jeff Weisberg wrote: > [35 lines, 189 words, 1252 characters] Top characters: t_eainol > > > | > I have no idea what the above is supposed to be, but > | > it is certainly *not* ASCII. > | > | This is a function of your locale. Those of us who deal regularly > | with non-English language text generally set our locales so that such > | things are displayed. (In the original email I saw characters with > | diacritical marks.) > > > uhm, I don't think I was clear on the point I was trying to make. > > The OP claimed to be using "ASCII", but the example text > was clearly *not* ASCII. > > you saw diacritical marks. > I saw question marks in circles. > the OP saw box drawing characters. I was only commenting on the first half of the sentence quoted (about not understanding what they were supposed to be). Perhaps for clarity I should have cut the second half of the sentence. Clearly your locale does not affect whether some characters are ascii or not. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B A cool book of games, highly worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931686963/purple-20 Attachment:
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