Re: UTF-8?

Matt Ackeret <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Bert Driehuis wrote:
> I do not know enough about Pine's guts to know how hard it would be to support
> UTF-8 properly, but for the time being I think it would be a major improvement
> if just UTF-8 encoded "smart quotes" would be mapped to ISO-8859 encoded
> quotes. As it stands, Pine renders "smart quotes" as something like ~Qsmart
> quotes~S which confuses the heck out of me. It just doesn't irritate me enough

Heh, it's smart quotes (I hate 'em, though I saw someone make a good
argument on a mailing list that they'd be good for *computer* readable text,
so it would be easier to parse) and bullets that are the main reason I'd
like to be able to do UTF-8.
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