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Old October 8th 17, 05:01 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Convert those dastardly curly quotes to straight quotes on Windows?

In message , Wolf K
writes:
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NB: ASCII is not ANSI. Ansi is ASCII plus codes 128 to 255.

Note ANSI 171 and 187. These are diagonal quotes, equivalent to curly
quotes.

As I recall it, characters 128 to 255 used to be called "extended
ASCII", way back in the Dark Ages, when people could write printer


Though that name for them gained wide circulation (and I sometimes use
it), I did read somewhere that it was never an official designation.

drivers by creating a list of escape codes and two- or three-byte codes
that described the dot pattern in the glyph matrix....

Another mess of esoteric useless knowledge.

Hi from a fellow dinosaur ... (-:
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