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[Richard Bos]

If you're running Microsoft Windows you won't see them. This is
the Microsoft dumbquotes problem, in which '\x221' and '\x222'
get substituted for ` and ' respectively.

I found it. And no, it's not the M$ dumb quotes problem; Word suffers
from that, and I can only assume that so might Outlook, Express or not,
but Free Agent doesn't.
However, I was quoting from the PDF which was posted here some time ago,
not from my usual n896.txt. It has those kinds of quotes throughout;
which, for it, isn't as dumb as for a newsreader and not as dumb as
mangling my own text, either, but simply typograpic convention.

Richard

 

[Kevin D. Quitt]

If you're running Microsoft Windows you won't see them. This is
the Microsoft dumbquotes problem, in which '\x221' and '\x222'
get substituted for ` and ' respectively.

Not so. It's the news reader, most likely. Agent shows the angled
apostrophes correctly.

 

[Richard Bos]

Not so. It's the news reader, most likely. Agent shows the angled
apostrophes correctly.

If it showed them correctly, it did not show them at all; those dumb
quotes aren't part of ISO-8859, but of Microsoft WinLatin-1. My Free
Agent shows them, too (so I didn't notice them when I posted them), but
that's because this is a M$ Windows machine, and therefore broken as
well.

Richard