Re: "UNICODE BOMBER STRIKES AGAIN"

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 15:54:44 EDT


On 04/22/2002 02:21:48 PM Tex Texin wrote:

>Doug Ewell pun'ed:
>>
>> > There he sits in wait until you switch on, and BAM, all your data
>> > turns to squares and the little beastie is laughing his socks off.
>>
>> That should have been "BOM."
>
>Yes, and "turns to squares" should have been "turns to replacement
>characters".

No, that's probably really squares -- .Notdef glyphs, actually, but not
replacement characters.

- Peter

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