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aliendial
Unfictologist
Spork is dead.
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:18 pm
silvrlite
Greenhorn
strange character? Hey, I just got my autoreply message and the apostraphe is there.....there is no japanese character in mine......
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:17 pm
ProfMoriarty
Veteran
I guess that just goes to show how anxious one can get over a new ARG. Too bad, I was really hoping it was some sort of pre-game clue.
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:39 pm
Sphyx
Greenhorn
GWing_02 wrote:
But seriously, don't think too much about the character thing. Apostrophes are a nightmare on the internet, as their character code in Unicode are special. So if your browser is reading the email and encoding it incorrectly, you will run into funny chinese or kanji characters. It's simply your browser trying to be too smart. I run into this all the time, especially if I visit a few chinese websites and the browser sorta goes into "chinese encoding" mode.
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:46 am
Rob_Riv
Unfettered
What's trout?
_________________"I suggest something involving a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants. I'm not sure what one could do with those things, but whatever it is it'll be excruciatingly painful." - Ankit Jain (Spankit) on Ryandrew's punishment.
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:58 pm
Enigmaster
Decorated
For a good, almost official explanation, try the link in my signature.
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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:32 pm
Rob_Riv
Unfettered
..oh right, pretty ironic that I asked really
_________________"I suggest something involving a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants. I'm not sure what one could do with those things, but whatever it is it'll be excruciatingly painful." - Ankit Jain (Spankit) on Ryandrew's punishment.
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:34 pm
Cryptnotic
Kilroy
problem is "smart quotes"... Short answer: It doesn't mean anything. It's a glitch in the display routines because the ' character is not the standard ' byte value, but rather Microsoft's "Smart Quotes" byte value. That byte works in IE or Outlook when it is set to English "Windows" text encoding format, which is a non-standard variant of iso-8859-1. It doesn't work in other browsers/email readers and it doesn't even work in Internet Explorer when you set it to auto-detect Japanese.
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:28 am
InspJJ
Veteran
Totally gatuitous post 'cos 70 should make me a veteran.... I have a sad life....
_________________The end of the world is nig
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:30 am
sasando
Greenhorn
InspJJ wrote:
Totally gatuitous post 'cos 70 should make me a veteran.... I have a sad life....
that?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:35 am
yanka
Fickle
Hi, sasando, and welcome here! You might want to hop over to the introductions thread to say "hi", since this rather old thread is not likely to get too much traffic
_________________Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:56 am
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