Re: Advice on style for contributions to rec.games.bridge

In rec.games.bridge Barry Margolin <barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: 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.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.bridge/msg/6ece1535666a699a

Apparently the posters were seeing symbols other than the suits.  I also
recall seeing these incorrect symbols for the suits on some websites.

Ted