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>

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