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to: Don Hills
from: Gary Britt
date: 2004-06-19 16:30:04
subject: Re: I love Clipboard Utilities.

From: "Gary Britt" 

I figured it was something like that, but didn't think it might be the web
page itself only instead of something in the program as well.

Cheers,

Gary

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:99/0AtgaXiCP092yn{at}attglobal.net...
> In article , "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>
> >   ... The only oddity I've noticed so far is
> >that when cutting and pasting certain web articles (just a few) the ' and
"
> >which  are visible on screen come through as some weird upper ASCII Euro
> >kind of characters when you paste.
>
> That's because they were written in a character set (Latin 1, most likely)
> where the underlying bytecodes map to left and right-hand quote marks. In
> standard extended ASCII, they map to other special characters. It looks
like
> the utility doesn't remember the character set in use for the text being
> clipped. Actually, I'd be somewhat surprised if it did - it's a tricky
> thing to implement.
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
> "I don't use Linux. I prefer to use an OS supported by a large multi-
> national vendor, with a good office suite, excellent network/internet
> software and decent hardware support."

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