Barry Margolin wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
Sorry, my bad, I am an idiot, UTF-8 uses more than 8 bits. 8 bits
refers to ascii which is of course what you should use, and what I do
usually use.
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