On Friday 18 January 2002 19:56, you wrote: > Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: > > On 18 Jan 2002 03:20:12 -0500 > > > > Paul Rodr$ByH(Buez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>How come in some emails, apostrophe's [heh] show up as little > >> square boxes in Evolution? > >> > >>- Paul Rod$Bmg(Buez > > > > must be conflict in locale and charsets. i have my locale set to > > japanese and your the 'rig' in your lastname shows up as a kanji > > character (yours is not the only one, there are some names which > > exhibit this behaviour). > > > > ciao! > > Well, as you know, Microsoft also set some of the codes reserved for > control characters to graphics characters in their editors, and it > might be an effect from that as well. There is a little perl script > called Demoroniser which can clean up websites from that mess and > keep the web author from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when the > site is viewed from a non-microsoft platform.
Website for the demoroniser is: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ Also contains a pretty good description of the probs MS s/w puts into web pages (it's not just the stupid charset tricks). S> -- <<< Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines >>> Remove the fruit to obtain reply address: spencer at lasermount apple dot uklinux dot net 9:11pm up 56 days, 7:11, 9 users, load average: 0.70, 0.42, 0.60 Registered Linux User #232457
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