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Default Good Gravy advice from the past

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 02:54:10 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 4:35:25 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
>> 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.

>
>But the moment you realize that you're a real genius who doesn't realize it,
>you've realized it, and your "real genius" status just goes, "Poof," and it's gone.
>Or you could spend 35+ years drinking too much, and watch it slowly slip away.


Oh well, that can't apply to me since I'm not a genius. As far as I
know.