Your Name wrote:
On 2017-09-15 11:14:48 +0000, Chaya Eve said:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:11:31 +0000 (UTC), Chaya Eve
wrote:
The latest Win10 ships with a DIN-look-alike font named ¡Bahnschrift¢
Why do single and double quotes in PowerPoint always show up as funny
characters in Usenet?
Because Usenet (and email) is *meant* to be plain text. "Curly quotes"
(and "curly apostrophes") are not part of plain text, so some usenet
newsreader applications do not work with them, which is the correct
approach. Same goes for other non-plain text typographical characters,
such as long dashes and ellipsis.
Some badly made Usenet newsreader applications do work with "curly
quotes", etc., but they're a pain in the backside in proper Usenet
reader applications since the characters come through as strange
characters.
I don't know if I'd call them badly made.
Supporting a curly quote, is no harder than supporting this.
ソーラン渡り鳥 （島津亜矢 + 田 寿美）.aac
If your newsreader supports internationalization, you should
be able to see that the way it was intended. Before I added
the font file to my OS, I was seeing squares. Now, I see
Chinese characters followed by four "regular" characters.
https://s2.postimg.org/hax9prms9/no_squares.gif
If I'd done that in xvnews 25 years ago, it would
have "looked like ****". Because all that supported
was plain ASCII.
At one time, some comm trunks used for data, only supported 7 bit
transmission. (The eighth bit was robbed for OOB signalling.)
And email and news worked within those limits. Using 7-bit ASCII
was a natural fit for the misshapen network. Now, however, the
assumption is all the pipes are 8 bit transparent, and multi-byte
characters can be sent, to support symbol sets that have thousands
of characters.
If you're using a really old newsreader, good luck dealing
with the above string.
Modern newsreaders even support character code escapes in things
like the Subject or From line. You can declare UTF-8 long enough,
to put special punctuation in there.
The header in each message, has a directive for character
coding and the like. Many things I've not tested, are
supported.
Paul