[Cialug] Linux Work - Debian

[David Champion]

Dave Weis wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> On Monday November 17 2008 12:36, Josh More wrote:
>>> This whole 8bit text thing should never have been allowed through.
>>> 7bit email was fine when I started, it should be fine now.  *grumble
>>> grumble grumble*.  :)
>> Or we should have just started out with 8-bit to begin with.  :)
>> Writing authentic Japanese (as opposed to the rÿÿmaji bastardization) to
>> my fiancée in us-ascii would be non-trivial. I'm sure other people can
>> think of other reasons for needing 8-bit, that's just the one that
>> comes to mind first for me.
>
> I'm not sure what will show up on anyone else's screen but I laughed 
> that a character set complaint had a mangled letter in fiance :-)
Who still used pine anyway???

I just love getting emails from people who put in smileys in Outlook, 
that come across to every other email client in the universe as "J", 
because that's the ascii letter equivalent to the smiley emoticon in 
whatever wingdings font Outlook tries to send.

-dc