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On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:28:15 -0800, Leo >
wrote:

>On 2020 Nov 21, , Bruce wrote
>(in >):
>
>> On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 23:46:28 -0800, >
>> wrote:
>> > In this World there is a human spectrum. There are narcissists, there are
>> > individualists, there are individualists that step above and run companies,
>> > there are individualists that step above and run sheeple, and there are
>> > sheeple. ThatâEURTMs it. You can see where the conflict occurs.

>>
>> I guess Trump's the type who runs sheeple (and runs companies into the
>> ground).

>
>Sure, why not. Otherwise, I am concerned with how my newsreader is
>occasionally presenting apostrophes, quotes and double quotes. I wrote
>That(apostrophe)s it. I see(âEURTM) as an apostrophe. Sometimes I see
>Chinese characters as apostrophes. Do you see that? Seriously. I think I´m
>going to alt.test, but I would like an answer.


I think that's very complex stuff about character sets and conversions
between them. The way I see it, the simple, standard straight
apostrophe ' always gets displayed correctly, but when you use curly
ones or otherwise fancy ones, it goes wrong. Maybe on smartphones
fancy ones are the standard ones?