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Topic subjectRE: Question for Jason Lavine
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221499, RE: Question for Jason Lavine
Posted by R2, Thu May-22-03 01:51 AM
Hmmm..., I think you are on to something there.

<However, excuse me for being a little jaded. So far all the attachments that agd has posted are NOT .jpg files, but are instead .htm files that point to the PCQ&A Home page. Now agd has sent Marty an email again with a bogus .jpg. Something is a little fishy with agd or his computer...>

It seems that agd's browser is handling the "Escape Sequences" incorrectly. If you guys (and gal) look carefully at the quote in question, you will note that the characters identified are all displayed through their Escape Sequences and NOT through their 'usual' ASCII characters.

For example:

If it makes you feel any better … I wasted 10 CD’s by “thinking” they were duff.

...is NOT the same as:

If it makes you feel any better ... I wasted 10 CD's by "thinking" they were duff.

Oh, they look similar, but the coding is different. Grogan correctly points out this may be an 'Encoding' issue. I looked at the page in Western, Baltic, Central European, Western European, Central European (DOS), etc. Many of them display the Escape Sequences correctly -- but not all. Here is an examples:

Central European (DOS): ...any better û I wasted 10 CDís by ôthinkingö they...

So, agd's browser is either working with Escape Sequences incorrectly or the Encoding is set up in a non-standard way.

Add:
<I had to cheat! I could not even find the correct escape sequence that is shown for the ellipsis in Central European (DOS) Encoding. It should be something like "ů" -- which could be a "u" with an º over it -- but as you can see, that does not work!>

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Corrected the missing "I" typo -- and added the image.