Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:54:42 -0800 (PST) From: "William R. Somsky" <somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: expr failure Message-ID: <199703101854.KAA23733@dirac.phys.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199703101742.JAA08488@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Mar 10, 97 09:42:20 am
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> Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote:
>
> if you read this with netscape,
> then it (would you believe) shows reverse ' as '
>
> e.g.
> in netscape these will be the same ` '
> but I typed them differntly.. (duh)
>
> since I am using netscape to type this
> I don't even know if they actually got entered
> as different characters because they echo on the screen as the same.!
Hmm... I checked w/ netscape, and I see them as different, so, I don't
think that it's netscape's fault per se, ie, I don't think it's mapping
` into ', _but_ it very well might be the fault of the font that your
netscape is using.
I've seen fonts where the ` (grave accent) and ' (single quote) are
almost indistinguishable: ie instead of looking something like:
**** ****
*** and ***
** **
* *
they look something like:
* ****
** and ***
*** **
**** *
Which at a small size are _very_ hard to tell apart.
I think, but won't swear to, that I've seen this on Sun's...
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Dr. William R. Somsky somsky@phys.washington.edu
Department of Physics, Box 351560 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg
Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 206/616-2954
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