In message , at 10:30:06 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

Just a shame your spell checker apparently uses 8 bit ascii which can resolve
to a number of different characters depending on the code page loaded, rather
than doing it properly and using UTF8.

It's up to *your* client to decide what to do when it sees (in my
headers):

Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Look on the bright side, at least it's not "charset=windows-1252"
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Roland Perry

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:11:37 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:30:06 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

Just a shame your spell checker apparently uses 8 bit ascii which can resolve
to a number of different characters depending on the code page loaded, rather
than doing it properly and using UTF8.

It's up to *your* client to decide what to do when it sees (in my
headers):

Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be parsing
any header lines.

Look on the bright side, at least it's not "charset=windows-1252"

There is that.

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Spud

In message , at 14:09:27 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

Just a shame your spell checker apparently uses 8 bit ascii which can resolve
to a number of different characters depending on the code page loaded, rather
than doing it properly and using UTF8.

It's up to *your* client to decide what to do when it sees (in my
headers):

Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be parsing
any header lines.

A home-made cobbled-together excuse for a client. Self-inflicted injury.
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Roland Perry

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:28:25 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:09:27 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be
parsing
any header lines.

A home-made cobbled-together excuse for a client. Self-inflicted injury.

A home-made cobbled together excuse which I doubt you could write and which
allows me to search hundreds of articles from dozens of groups in milliseconds
using regular expressions via the unix command line and filter out the crap
and the good stuff in a far more complex way than any reader program can manage.

--
Spud

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:09:27 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

Just a shame your spell checker apparently uses 8 bit ascii which can resolve
to a number of different characters depending on the code page loaded, rather
than doing it properly and using UTF8.

It's up to *your* client to decide what to do when it sees (in my
headers):

Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be parsing
any header lines.

A home-made cobbled-together excuse for a client. Self-inflicted injury.

Yes, no wonder his posts are so badly composed and misspelt.

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:00:32 +0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Yes, no wonder his posts are so badly composed and misspelt.

Miss Pelt , lovely woman.

However some of us have jobs to do and can't spent 30 mins reading through
entire threads so I let the machine do the heavy lifting for me.

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Spud

In message , at 15:47:11 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be
parsing
any header lines.

A home-made cobbled-together excuse for a client. Self-inflicted injury.

A home-made cobbled together excuse which I doubt you could write and which
allows me to search hundreds of articles from dozens of groups in milliseconds
using regular expressions via the unix command line and filter out the crap
and the good stuff in a far more complex way than any reader program can manage.

Apart from falling on the floor the moment anyone uses a specified 8-bit
character set.
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Roland Perry

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:13:07 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:47:11 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles
as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be
parsing
any header lines.

A home-made cobbled-together excuse for a client. Self-inflicted injury.

A home-made cobbled together excuse which I doubt you could write and which
allows me to search hundreds of articles from dozens of groups in milliseconds
using regular expressions via the unix command line and filter out the crap
and the good stuff in a far more complex way than any reader program can
manage.

Apart from falling on the floor the moment anyone uses a specified 8-bit
character set.

It didn't fall on the floor - its just bytes. Its how 3rd party software
interprets it thats the issue. UTF8 is supported out the box by most modern
linux/unix terminals & editors so character sets weren't a consideration.
I'm genuinely surprised to find out that current software in 2015 still uses
code pages. Couldn't be much more out of date if it used EBCDIC.

Anyway, this is a discussion for another group.

--
Spud

On 29/10/2015 10:30, d wrote:
[...]
Either way, who gives a **** about accents. This is english, not french.


In that vein, capital letters with proper nouns please M. Spud.

On 10/29/2015 10:30 AM, d wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:25:17 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:12:53 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, Martin Coffee remarked:

If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

Just a shame your spell checker apparently uses 8 bit ascii which can resolve
to a number of different characters depending on the code page loaded, rather
than doing it properly and using UTF8.

Either way, who gives a **** about accents. This is english, not french.

--
Spud


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