tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 25 00:26:10 1998
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messed-up apostrophes (was: Re: KLBC: poH wa|DIch Saghom)
- From: "Anthony Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: messed-up apostrophes (was: Re: KLBC: poH wa|DIch Saghom)
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:25:18 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
Thomas Staller wrote some Klingon text where the apostrophes reached my
mailer (PMAIL for DOS) as the high-order character ascii-180 (= hex B4).
Robyn Stewart <[email protected]> replied:-
> P.P.S. Use the ordinary apostrophe key, next to the enter key on an American
> keyboard, not whatever you used to create the ' marks in this message. They
> came out very oddly, and not at all on some people's programs.
Likely he did type the usual ' character, but his emailer uses as text editor
some package such as Microsoft Word which tries to be helpful and replaces the
apostrophes by its own codes for left and right single-quote. (For emailers to
use Microsoft Word is an unwise trick anyway, because also it helps Microsoft
Word macro viruses to spread.)