David Stevenson wrote:
> Advice on style for contributions to rec.games.bridge
....
David, may I make a suggestion to add something. I couldn't find it in
the style guide.
When referring to suits, posters should use the letters S, H, D, C for
spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs in place of the suit symbols.
Something like (S), (H), etc. is OK too. However, posters should *not*
use the suit symbols themselves. Those symbols may exist in Windows
character sets, but they are not in any 8-bit international standard
character set, and will not display properly on non-Windows systems or
(probably) when using software that expects to be displaying in an ISO
standard character set. This is a problem that has come up on r.g.b a
number of times.
I don't recommend just inserting the above in the style guide, since I
haven't tried to word it in a user-friendly manner. But something to
that effect should be there, IMHO.
-- Adam
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