[H-GEN] Sed is your friend

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-07-20, Sandra Milne wrote:
> Greg Black wrote:
> 
> >However, the URL above does demonstrate yet another annoying bug
> >in Opera-6.1 which renders the information useless to people who
> >might need to read it -- Opera displays the "backtick" (`) [0]
> >character the same as the "single quote" (') character; since
> >plenty of the examples use both of these characters (and they
> >are not interchangeable), the examples are tricky to read.
> 
> Wouldn't it just be the font that the browser uses to display plain 
> text? I would try changing the font first to see if that makes a 
> difference. I'm assuming in Mozilla it's the monospace font that it uses 
> and this is Courier New on my system. It displays quite nicely (Mozilla 
> 1.4) although I had to search to find a `.

I use the default monospaced font in all the browsers I use, on
the grounds that they should have chosen something that is, at
the very least, capable of displaying the 94 printable ASCII
characters unambiguously (i.e., without using one glyph for two
different characters).  If the default settings cannot manage
that, the thing is just broken -- even if, by some legerdemain,
I could find a way of "fixing" it.

Cheers, Greg

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