On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 5:00:12 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> 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.

It's not all it's cracked up to be. Drinking beer is way better.

--Bryan