Rhialto posted on Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:15:00 +0200 as excerpted:
> The problem with Microsoft software is that it *often* claims to produce
> Latin-1 encoding (aka ISO-8859-1) but actually produces Windows codepage
> 1252 ("windows-1252"). Those are mostly the same, apare from the control
> charact
On Fri 21 Sep 2012 at 10:58:31 +, DLSauers wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:36:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > Short answer: it's an encoding problem. Some doofus is probably pasting
> > so-called "Smart Quotes" from Microsoft Word into their post, and their
> > news reader program (or G
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 01:09:56 +1000
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 22/09/12 00:07, Brian Morrison wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:59:09 +1000
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >
> >> Heavy metal: Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Наӥв
> >
> > Say that last one again? ;-)
>
>
> "Наӥв", very ro
On Sat, Sep 22, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I assume that the umlaut over the и is just for the look, and
> doesn't change the pronunciation.
IIRC it does. It turns a hard vocal into a soft one.
--Daniel
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:36:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
>
Thank you so much for that link! It explained in one comprehensible non-
programmer-exclusive chunk things I have been barely understanding around
the edges of for years. Highly rec
On 22/09/12 00:07, Brian Morrison wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:59:09 +1000
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Heavy metal: Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Наӥв
Say that last one again? ;-)
"Наӥв", very roughly pronounced something like "Narev". It's
Russian.
I assume that the umlaut over
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:59:09 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> The rest of the world AND the *nineteenth* century wants to say a few
> words to you. ASCII was crap from the moment it was invented -- there
> has never been a time, not even one single minute, that ASCII has been
> sufficient for eve
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:59:09 +1000
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Heavy metal: Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, Наӥв
Say that last one again? ;-)
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Brian Morrison
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On 21/09/12 20:58, DLSauers wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:36:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Short answer: it's an encoding problem. Some doofus is probably pasting
so-called "Smart Quotes" from Microsoft Word into their post, and their
news reader program (or Google Groups *spit*) is not adju
