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| Main - Computing - Know Your Keys. | New thread | New reply |
| Kles |
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Level: 75 Posts: 683/1301 EXP: 3718309 Next: 108595 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada |
Dear denizens of the Internet, I must bring up something that particularily bothers me.
The key circled in green is the tilde/grave key. The grave key is used to add an accent on certain letters, such as è. It is not an apostrophe. The key circled in yellow is the apostrophe/quotation marks. This key is used to add an apostrophe to your posts. Please use the right key. I'm sick of seeing a grave used as an apostrophe. |
| Acmlm |
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 Flurry Level: 37 Posts: 141/251 EXP: 315110 Next: 23143 Since: 02-19-07 From: Mirabel, Québec, Canada Last post: 6183 days Last view: 1816 days |
Flurry #&postrank& That goes for the U.S. keyboard, others can be different 
Mine doesn't have that problem, since my ` key is really for the accent (`+vowel = accented letter), but I have to hold Shift to type ' ... And what about ´ (acute) or even ’ (alt-0146)  ____________________ |
| Xkeeper |
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Level: 105 Posts: 959/2846 EXP: 12031080 Next: 231180 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6063 days Last view: 2800 days |
You,re an idiot. ____________________ I dealt with it. |
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beh Level: 86 Posts: 822/1816 EXP: 6131348 Next: 10759 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6149 days Last view: 6149 days |
Yes, those will work for apostrophes, but ` is not an apostrophe! |
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 Boo Level: 68 Posts: 328/1036 EXP: 2642191 Next: 86609 Since: 02-19-07 From: It is a mystery. Last post: 5725 days Last view: 5725 days |
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beh Level: 86 Posts: 823/1816 EXP: 6131348 Next: 10759 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 6149 days Last view: 6149 days |
But JPEGs are lossy :/ |
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 Ninji Level: 36 Posts: 112/234 EXP: 283645 Next: 24465 Since: 02-19-07 From: Norway Last post: 2495 days Last view: 1435 days |
Yeah, and a picture like this needs to be as perfect as humanly possible. |
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Level: 105 Posts: 960/2846 EXP: 12031080 Next: 231180 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6063 days Last view: 2800 days |
1-UP'd.
(0.9% of the original filesize, but much higher in quality) ____________________ I dealt with it. |
| Kles |
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Level: 75 Posts: 684/1301 EXP: 3718309 Next: 108595 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada |
I didn't want to make a JPG because I was using paint.
My point stands, and Xkeeper shows it better. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 834/1881 EXP: 6463716 Next: 186948 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6149 days Last view: 6140 days |
What drives me nuts is when people use the backquote and apostrophe as single quotes, as in `whatever' or, even worse, doubled up to form double quotes ``whatever''.
Suposedly that actually looks fine on some text-only Unix displays because the backquote looks like an opening single quote, but with modern GUIs and proportional fonts, it just looks crappy. |
| Acmlm |
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Flurry Level: 37 Posts: 142/251 EXP: 315110 Next: 23143 Since: 02-19-07 From: Mirabel, Québec, Canada Last post: 6183 days Last view: 1816 days |
Flurry #&postrank& If they're going to do that, they might as well use the real ‘single quotes’ (ASCII 145 and 146), or even the “double quotes” (147 and 148) ...
At least no one uses ¨ for double quotes  ____________________ |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 835/1881 EXP: 6463716 Next: 186948 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6149 days Last view: 6140 days |
Acmlm, those codes are only in Windows character sets, so they wouldn't display on Linux or Mac OS. |
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 Paratroopa Level: 30 Posts: 6/155 EXP: 152636 Next: 13233 Since: 03-14-07 Last post: 6048 days Last view: 5997 days |
ASCII is just characters 0 through 127. There is no such thing as "ASCII 145" and the like. (-: |
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Level: 105 Posts: 961/2846 EXP: 12031080 Next: 231180 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6063 days Last view: 2800 days |
Posted by GuyPerfectASCII extended ____________________ I dealt with it. |
| Higsby |
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 Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 195/681 EXP: 1408149 Next: 77779 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada Last post: 6122 days Last view: 5917 days |
Posted by Kles I've never done that in my life  |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 836/1881 EXP: 6463716 Next: 186948 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6149 days Last view: 6140 days |
Posted by XkeeperPosted by GuyPerfectASCII extended Even then, characters 128-159 are control codes in the ISO 8859 character sets and Unicode. Micro$$$$$$$$$oft just decided to ignore the standards and add their own (printable) characters there, which other OSes do NOT recognize (although they are mapped to higher positions in Unicode). |
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Paratroopa Level: 30 Posts: 7/155 EXP: 152636 Next: 13233 Since: 03-14-07 Last post: 6048 days Last view: 5997 days |
Microsoft uses Code Page 1252. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 861/1881 EXP: 6463716 Next: 186948 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6149 days Last view: 6140 days |
Well, it does for Western European languages. Slavic, Cyrillic, Greek, etc. use additional code pages that are even more out of step with their ISO counterparts. |
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Paratroopa Level: 30 Posts: 8/155 EXP: 152636 Next: 13233 Since: 03-14-07 Last post: 6048 days Last view: 5997 days |
Windows does, fortunately, support Unicode. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 862/1881 EXP: 6463716 Next: 186948 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6149 days Last view: 6140 days |
Yeah, but it still tends to screw up characters that are in the 128-159 range so that when I load my documents on a Linux machine, all the smart quotes vanish. |
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