In article <%hBDf.19612$Cf7.13570@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Travis Crump <pretzalz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Adam Beneschan wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> It seems silly to refer to an 8-bit international standard when they are
> in fact in UTF-8, from 2660-2667. ♠♡♢♣ for example.
Are those supposed to be the suit symbols in your sentence? I'm reading
your message on a Mac running the latest OS X and MT-Newswatcher, and I
don't see anything remotely like a suit symbol there.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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