From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn  wrote:   
      
   > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   > > J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > >> Any attempt at using non-ASCII symbology is an error.   
   > >   
   > > No, it is not.  Network News has been supporting non-ASCII encodings since   
   > > the late 1990s.  See also RFC 5536.   
   > >   
   > > Unicode is the standard character set with electronic devices nowadays.   
   >   
   > With that said, the superscript 2 in question here is already contained in   
   > ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252 (0xB2).  There is no excuse for not   
   > rendering it correctly.   
      
   Au contraire, there can be no excuse for using it on usenet,   
      
   Jan   
      
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