Hello Bj”rn,

On Monday May 27 2019 12:43, you wrote to mark lewis:

 BF> But you are right, it was a handful of apostrophises that caused all
 BF> this brouhaha.

"Brouhaha"?

As opposed to the two decades of brouhaha that you have raised over two dots
over the letter 'o'?

 BF>    Ah well, CP 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code page
 BF> in many countries,

For DOS. Many Winodows applications default to CP1252 AKA "Windows Western".
AKA "ANSI Latin 1" and my guess is that is exactly what happened with Ward's
article. CP 1252 has three different characters that look like the ASCII
apostrophe character "'". (0X27). In CP1252 there is also the leading single
quote character (0X91) and the closing single quote character (0X92).

My guess is that Ward used a "smart" Windows editor that translated the
apostrophe character into the closing single quote character. (0X92)  Most
likely this was unintentional and he was unaware of it.

Actually CP1252 is not such a bad choice. (For those in the western world that
want to stick to single byte encoding.) Except for the characters in the range
0X80-0x9F it is the same as Latin-1 which is popular with the Linux gang. In
Latin 1 0X80-0X9F are control characters, in CP1252 they are printable
character. With among them the EURO sign. Very nice for the Euro lovers. (Yeah,
I know, you are not one of them).

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

 BF>    So I think I'll stick to CP 850 when posting the Fidonews in the
 BF> echoes. Any objections, save from the UTF-8 fanatics?

It would seem I am disqualified from objecting. So let me add this:

If CP850 is the "Fidonews character set", you should mention this in an updated
version of ARTSPEC.DOS and in the Fidonews epilog.

Also you should have rejected Ward's article as it is not in CP850. You
recently stated that processing of articles is not automatic, so don't give us
that excuse. You claim you actually do "editing". So you should have noticed
the deviation and "edited" it.


Cheers, Michiel

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