Re: Nota Bene

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from "Yo Intl."  Fri, 22 Oct 1999 12:52:22

-> >... Any program (e.g., the
-> >ubiquitous WordPad) that copies text to and from the Windows
-> >clipboard will do.
-> >
-> >Carl Distefano
-> It will not do, if you use high ASCII in your text, because
-> Windows programs read them as ANSI codes, and voila, all your
-> German and Swedish accents morphe into something unintended.

You mean to say that quikview, or whatever, automatically converts
imported text to the Windows (ANSI) charset? If so, how does it
"know" which charset it's converting *from*?

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