Re: OT: encoding, was: Hugo Shortlist 2008

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:54:39 +0100, Jo'Asia <joasia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>David DeLaney wrote:
>
>> David Cowie <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:04:08 +0000, Rich Horton wrote:
>
>>>> And, yes, short story is a bit of a letdown, though thereÂ?s some
nice
>>>> stuff there. My vote goes very strongly to Ken MacLeodÂ?s Â?WhoÂ?s
Afraid
>>>> of Wolf 359?Â?, though I actually preferred (very slightly) his
Â?Jesus
>>>> Christ, ReanimatorÂ?. My favorite story of the year, Holly
PhillipsÂ?s
>>>> Â?Three Days of RainÂ?, didnÂ?t make it, and neither did any of my
next 5
>>>> or 6 favorites (except MacLeodÂ?s story, of course).
>
>>> Is anyone else seeing odd characters here in place of quote marks and
>>> apostrophes? 
>
>> Yep - they seem to be the standard Microsoft 'smartquote' dumb
technology,
>> from the letters they're showing up as for me, though since they've
been
>> quoted a level or two they've got some extra bits. Usenet is not 8-bit
clean,
>> and Microsoft's usages are not standards, but some newsreaders and/or
editors
>> act as though both are the case.
>
>Nope, the main problem is not the quotes themselves. Apparently Rich's
>Forte Agent is misconfigured (or can't be configured properly) and sends
>posts declared as ISO-8859-1 but containing charactes out of the set.
>
>With properly declared utf-8 the effect should be much better.

I don't think it's Agent this time but the fact that I cut and pasted
that post from another forum.