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echo: fidonews
to: PAUL QUINN
from: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
date: 2020-01-25 13:58:00
subject: UTF-8

Hello Paul,

On Saturday January 25 2020 22:31, you wrote to Oli:

 Ol>>  WD> BTW there're some weird control characters in your text. I
 Ol>> quoted som above.
 Ol>>
 Ol>> UTF-8. It looks fine in GossipEd.

 PQ> It's garbage in both GoldEd and Mystic, and both are in UTF
 PQ> environments (of differing vesions of OSs).  Just sayin'...

Golded and presumably Mystic as well has a very limited UTF-8 implementation.
The characters in question are the opening and closing double quotes.  (U"+01C)
and (U+01D).

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

Cheers, Michiel

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