Re: Help with this article with all the \XXX

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Passer By <sender@sender.send> writes:

> news:10vih2p0prbvpm5jv99rkpfnlji4jpc2vs@4ax.com
>
> Does everyone see how there are all these \222 \223 \224 etc
>
> how do i get them to look like the normal ',", etc. chars

Which they are not.

' is \047, not \222
" is \042, not \223

\222 is ’
\223 is “
\224 is ” 


The problem comes from the sender who indicates the wrong encoding for
their characters.  Notably, from MS-Windows programs who announce
ISO-8859-1 encoding when they include WINDOWS-1252 characters.

You should complain to the senders and they  should fill a bug report
with their software vendor.


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