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Article #187Re: Reading English on Japanese CLIE
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 12:01
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 12:01
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In article <030520020009498538%dr_chesh@mac.com>, tn <dr_chesh@mac.com> wrote: >I don't think there are work arounds. This is an issue of over-lapping >code tables for encoding text. There are certain western characters -- >like curly quotes and curly appostrophes (as opposed to straight quotes >or appostrophes) -- that are not part of the standard original ASCII >encoding scheme, but utilize what I think are called high-ASCII. Those characters are not part of any ISO or ANSI standardised character set. They were added unilateraly by third parties (Microsoft, Palm, etc) and should not normally be used. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. WWFD? "Be conservative in what you generate, and liberal in what you accept" -- Matthew 10:16 (l.trans)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6708,4fc3ffb308ce8cd8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6708,public X-Google-Thread: 112073,4fc3ffb308ce8cd8 X-Google-Attributes: gid112073,public X-Google-Thread: 11219a,4fc3ffb308ce8cd8 X-Google-Attributes: gid11219a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-03 05:16:36 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-proxy.baileynm.com!citadel.in.taronga.com!not-for-mail From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Reading English on Japanese CLIE Date: 3 May 2002 12:01:31 GMT Organization: TSS Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <aatu6r$7s4$1@citadel.in.taronga.com> References: <c5862fb7.0205021952.32de2416@posting.google.com> <aat2d0$d8d6v$1@ID-141600.news.dfncis.de> <030520020009498538%dr_chesh@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: citadel.in.taronga.com X-Trace: citadel.in.taronga.com 1020427291 8068 10.0.0.43 (3 May 2002 12:01:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@taronga.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 May 2002 12:01:31 GMT X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999)