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Default Good Gravy advice from the past

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 02:08:08 -0800, Leo >
wrote:

>On 2020 Nov 22, , Bruce wrote
>(in >):
>
>> 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?

>
>Dunno yet. I have gone from UTF-8 to ISO Latin 1 (8 bit) with crazy
>characters. Now I´m trying ISO Latin 1 (7 bit) starting now. If anyone sees
>nutty characters instead of an apostrophe or quote from now on, first I will
>dink with my fonts and second, contact the developer. I don´t have a
>"smart quotes" option to turn off, and I am seeing smart quotes quoted as
>such right now.


It can also be on the recipient's side.

>I don´t even recognize what I write, and it´s pure genius ;-)


Yes, a real genius doesn't even realise it. We have that in common.