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   Brian M. Scott to All   
   Re: Science fiction   
   14 Aug 13 22:09:10   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On 9 Aug 2013 21:09:36 -0400, William December Starr   
    wrote in   
    in   
   alt.usage.english,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > "Brian M. Scott"  said:   
      
   >> On 27 Jul 2013 00:34:45 -0700, R H Draney    
   >> wrote   
      
   >>> Please: some of us don't do diacrits, and most of those   
   >>> who do avoid characters that aren't in the first eight   
   >>> bits, like those troublesome quotation marks of yours...I   
   >>> have no way of producing an o with an umlaut walking   
   >>> against the wind....r   
      
   >> My headers correctly specify UTF-8.  If your newsreader   
   >> doesn’t know what to do with UTF-8, you should consider   
   >> finding one that does.   
      
   > Or, you could be less of a dipshit about it.   
      
   > I'm just saying...   
      
   No, you’re not, any more than the folks who claim that ‘it   
   was just a joke’.  So how about following your own advice?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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