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eric dahlman <dahlman@sibelius.cs.colostate.edu> wrote:
: Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU> writes:

:> least some of them were created with Front Page.  "'" appear okay on the
:> MS Front Page web site though.  Some were also served from IIS and are

I think the culprit is actually MSWord, but I wouldn't quote me on that.

:> asp pages.  I was thinking character encoding, but isn't an "'" part of
:> the very standard ASCII charset?  How could they screw that up?

Yes.  It is also a part of the standard ISO character set.  But Windows
has their own version of the ISO character set.  Figures, eh?
I looked all over to find a URL reference to back this up, but I can't
find it...
It appears to be a discrepency in how Windows and the Rest Of The World
define the ISO Latin 1 character set...

By the way, doing seaches on this made one thing pretty apparent:
AltaVista's top secret method of allowing companies to purchase
positions in search results is pretty damn annoying.  It is subtle,
at times, but ever so obvious at other times...
All Hail Google -- who returns sixteen different links to the same
document.  Ah, well...

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