decoding implementation

[David Relson]

At 11:16 PM 11/24/02, Matthias Andree wrote:

> > The same is true of high-bit apostrophes and such; I'd want the lexer to
> > differentiate between them on all platforms, since I doubt that anyone
> > will send me legitimate mail containing them.
>
>Oh yes they will. Microsoft Office and other crap will happily send
>these typographic quotes in documents, and what's even more fun, declare
>ISO-8859-1 for that (rather than Windows-1252 which would be correct.)
>or us-ascii or... Try typing "this is strange" (with quotes) in MS Word
>and see how it changes that to “this is strange”.

I agree.  Mail programs being what they are, there are no rules.  Anything 
can (and likely will) happen.

The "this is strange" conversion be a new feature.  My trust, dusty copy of 
Office 97 doesn't do this for me.