On Dec 16, 8:59 pm, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> Gene Ward Smith <genewardsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ... didn^[B!G^[(Bt have much of a case, ...
>
> Worst. Apostrophe. Ever.

Huh? When I read the post, all I saw was "didn't have much of a
case"... no funny apostrophe at all. Presumably, some strange coding
incompatibility.

John Savard

In article <50b666d3-483f-4272-80d3-4304ee529cd1@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>On Dec 16, 8:59 pm, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>> Gene Ward Smith <genewardsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ... didn^[B!G^[(Bt have much of a case, ...
>>
>> Worst. Apostrophe. Ever.
>
>Huh? When I read the post, all I saw was "didn't have much of a
>case"... no funny apostrophe at all. Presumably, some strange coding
>incompatibility.
>

Many of us read on regular ascii-font terminals. People who compose
on (blech) MS-Wordpad friendly editors frequently get open and
close single-quote marks that MS helpfully provides. These usually
appear as (something)-R and (something)-S on our screens (I can't
recall what the something is at the moment, sorry).

But in this case you've managed to come up with something that gets
displayed as "^[B!G^[(B", which has to be a record. What the heck
are you composing your messages on?

--
-john

February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.

On 2007-12-20, John M. Gamble <jgamble@ripco.com> wrote:
> In article <50b666d3-483f-4272-80d3-4304ee529cd1@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>On Dec 16, 8:59 pm, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>>> Gene Ward Smith <genewardsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > ... didn^[B!G^[(Bt have much of a case, ...
>>>
>>> Worst. Apostrophe. Ever.
>>
>>Huh? When I read the post, all I saw was "didn't have much of a
>>case"... no funny apostrophe at all. Presumably, some strange coding
>>incompatibility.
>>
>
> Many of us read on regular ascii-font terminals. People who compose
> on (blech) MS-Wordpad friendly editors frequently get open and
> close single-quote marks that MS helpfully provides. These usually
> appear as (something)-R and (something)-S on our screens (I can't
> recall what the something is at the moment, sorry).
>
> But in this case you've managed to come up with something that gets
> displayed as "^[B!G^[(B", which has to be a record. What the heck
> are you composing your messages on?

Keith slightly misquoted it. It's actually "^[$B!G^[(B"

It *looks* like VT escape codes for selecting alternate character sets.

"^[(B" is "Designate G0 Character Set as ASCII"

But I can't find any reference that says what "^[$B" is.

--
Aaron Denney
-><-

Aaron Denney <wnoise@ofb.net> wrote:
> It's actually "^[$B!G^[(B"
> It *looks* like VT escape codes for selecting alternate character sets.

You're right, it does. Of course trn quite properly renders it rather
than sending the raw escape codes to my terminal.

> "^[(B" is "Designate G0 Character Set as ASCII"
> But I can't find any reference that says what "^[$B" is.

Nor can I find it in my VT420 manual. I tried it on my terminal, and
it doesn't seem to do anything
--
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