On Sunday 22 May 2016 07:43:43 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:17:22PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 21 May 2016 16:56:31 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 20 May 2016 15:57:27 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > That statement reminds me of one of George Orwell's characters > > > > > saying "It means whatever I want it to mean." > > > > > > > > No, Lewis Carol, Humpty Dumpty in Alice Through The Looking Glass. > > > > > > > > “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, > > > > “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The > > > > question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many > > > > different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is > > > > to be master—that’s all.” > > > > > > What key are you pressing to get the wee squares? > > > > What wee squares?? > > It must be a font problem my end.
Probably. > I'm using mutt in a tty. > I guess you copy'n'pasted the text from a web page. Yes. > For > some reason the (I guess they're quotation marks) display > as a small square. After I posted, I worked out that it was probably the quotation marks that were the problem. As you say, I had copy and pasted and that was the only thing that looked anything but bog-standard. But I am only using <quote from the configuration> us-ascii, iso-8859-1, utf-8 (locale) and utf-8</quote>, with a locale of en_GB.UTF-8, so not very abstruse in view of the fact that I have correspondents in, and therefore correspondence from, Japan, Greece and Israel in addition to the Anglo-Saxon countries. Lisi
