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Re: testing new computer new isp

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:28
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Andy Burns wrote:
> jmfbahciv wrote:
>
>> Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>>
>>> Your Name Here wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a horrible computer ….
>>
>> I did not type that weird character.
>
> It seems you (or your slippery new computer did)
>
> The sequence "…." without quote marks appears in your original message
> which may be a garbled unicode sequence for a three-dotted ellipse,
> followed by a fullstop
>
> (U+2026 = 0xE2 0x80 0xA6) (0x2E)
>
> see 6th row on left here
> <http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html>
>
> So presumably you typed "...." and something not quite clever enough for
> its own good altered it?  Niklas's quote didn't mangle your original
> characters, but your re-quoting of Niklas's reply changed it to "…."
>
> So I think you have some kind of 8-bit character set/encoding problem
> going on ...

Aw, fuckmeverymuch.  Thanks for the info.  Another item on the list of
things to undo.

/BAH
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From: jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: testing new computer new isp
Date: 9 Feb 2018 15:28:05 GMT
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