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babysimonWhy does the world default to ISO 8859-1? Just once I would like to see a Windows user use a "smart" quote without knowing I'm going to be banging my head against the wall for hours...
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Date: 2003-04-01 05:18 am (UTC)I have my stuff all set to ISO-8859-15, but that's not been the default on anything I've checked so far.
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Date: 2003-04-01 05:44 am (UTC)You know you want it.
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Date: 2003-04-01 06:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-04-01 10:07 am (UTC)Still, it's better than those *ix text programs that insist on doing ``this'' for double quotes.
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Date: 2003-04-02 01:02 am (UTC)> for DTP decline to use them.
Why? They look nicer and are easier to read. Now that the world is transitioning to unicode it's not like they're a Microsoft-ish.