XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Andy Burns wrote:   
   >>> Maybe you can explain what happens with fonts as I've never understood   
   >>> how   
   >>> they show up for people like you who are on the receiving end of my   
   >>> posts.   
   >   
   > The receiver controls the font, but modified based on certain charsets,   
   > e.g. Chinese tend to use "big5" and Thunderbird will use either a YaHei   
   > or SimSun font for that, which always looks like a low quality scratchy   
   > font on my machines ... someone else described it as "stretched   
   > vertically Times Roman"   
   >   
   >    
      
   Hi Andy,   
      
   Thanks for your help, now, and over the years as I respect your acumen.   
      
   I really have no idea how fonts are handled since I don't overtly do   
   anything other than randomize the headers scraped from Usenet posts.   
      
   However...   
      
   I think I have an idea what happened, since the post you said was in   
   Chinese fonts was no different, on my side, than any other post from me.   
      
   But...   
      
   I very often copy-and-paste from documents.   
      
   In that case, the characters pasted can include em-dashes, curly quotes,   
   non-breaking hyphens, non-breaking spaces, and other crazy characters.   
      
   Some show up as crazy inside of gVim so I have a chance to fix them.   
   Others don't.   
      
   Maybe one of those crazy unicode funky characters showed up that is not in   
   the 95 characters found on a normal US/UK/EU QWERTY keyboard perhaps?   
      
   >>> I write the content in gVim and I send it off with telnet.   
   >>> Everything in the header related to the newsreader is essentially random.   
   >>>   
   >>> Specifically, whatever the header "says" about fonts, is random.   
   >>> It's not "completely" random as the header lines are "scraped".   
   >   
   > Maybe any scraped sample headers that you randomly include into postings   
   > should exclude those with charset big5, or koi8 (similar for russian)   
      
   Here is a script that removes many of the "funky" characters which creep up   
   when I copy and paste from a published source (web pages or research docs).   
      
   It uses Notepad++ shortcuts.xml to convert funky characters to 7-bit ASCII.   
      
       
           
           
           
           
           
           
      
           
           
           
           
           
           
      
           
           
           
           
      
           
           
           
           
           
           
       
      
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