From: clore@columbia-center.org   
      
   On 11/28/2012 6:48 AM, Anarcissie wrote:   
   > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:43:18 -0800, patmpowers wrote:   
   >> On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:27:40 PM UTC+8, Dan Clore wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> �The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist   
   >>> Economics� develops   
   >>   
   >> Is there any way to get rid of the weird � symbol I keep getting   
   >> in this newsgroup?   
   >   
   > It's Unicode (UTF-8, I think), but somewhere along the line the   
   > software transmitting or displaying it has munged it.  I was able to   
   > get rid of most of it by reading the article using trn in a terminal   
   > window whose encoding was set to UTF-8.  There were still    
   > characters indicating that something wasn't being translated.   
   > However, the original showed up okay in the Pan newsreader and   
   > probably would in others.  (But not in Google Groups; screwing up   
   > character encoding seems to be part of Google's resolute effort to   
   > destroy what's left of Usenet.)   
      
   The message displays fine for me both on Mozilla Thunderbird, which I   
   use for e-mail and Usenet, and on the Yahoogroups website, using Firefox.   
      
   So all I can suggest is to try different software.   
      
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