• broken quotes, was Re: HID: LIST list arrays

    From dave_thompson_2@comcast.net@21:1/5 to 643-408-1753@kylheku.com on Sun Oct 20 06:49:41 2024
    On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:58:21 -0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:

    On 2024-10-17, digi_cs <cosmogen@gmail.com> wrote:

    @include ?github.com/digics/UID10/uid.lib?

    LIST = hid::get( ?LIST? )

    I understand you're super excited (and I have been there many times)
    but it would be better to slow down and consolidate everything into one
    post, with good formatting and no weird character replacements.

    Use a test newsgroup to work out posting issues.

    I suspect it might be your posting software which is replacing
    certain characters with codes like <93> and <94>.

    What is that? Decimal 93 and 94 do not correspond to ASCII
    quotes, and neither do the hex Unicode points U+0093 and U+0094,
    which are control characters.

    x93 and x94 are the evil 'smart' (double)quotes (left and right) in
    Microsoft CP1252, which lots of MSware and imitationware changes
    automatically to make your text supposedly prettier. AFAICT web
    browsers have conceded to this by treating things declared as 8859-1
    as actually 1252 (affecting only C1 = x80 to x9F, little used in true
    8859 OR Unicode). x91 and x92 are the similar singlequotes.

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