In article <1138665627.526565.303620@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Adam Beneschan" <adam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
Has it? I can't recall ever seeing such a post.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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