[yapc] Schedule and Wiki Now Open

James E Keenan jkeen at verizon.net
Mon Jan 23 18:29:21 PST 2012


On 1/23/12 7:20 PM, Nick Patch wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Matt S Trout
> <mst at shadowcatsystems.co.uk>  wrote:
>>>> I'd suggest turning off smart quoting for email
>>>> that may be read by anything other than MS Word.
>>>
>>> It displays sanely for me in Apple Mail.app and in mutt. Fix your
>>> client.
>>
>> They're still horrible. Just because it's Lembark complaining doesn't mean
>> he doesn't have a point.
>
> What's horrible about them?

Fortunately, due to the miracle of open-source software, this situation 
is correctable.

Earlier this month I had some correspondence with JT concerning 
Windows-1252 encoded characters showing up weird in email messages.  He 
provided a link to the code he's been using to help organize YAPC and is 
willing to accept patches:

https://github.com/rizen/YAPC-Tools/blob/master/news/rss2channels.pl

Patches welcome!

jimk


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