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From: "William R. Somsky" <somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: expr failure
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> Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote:
>
> if you read this with netscape,
> then it (would you believe) shows reverse ' as '
> 
> e.g.
> in netscape these will be the same  ` '
> but I typed them differntly.. (duh)
> 
> since I am using netscape to type this
> I don't even know if they actually got entered
> as different characters because they echo on the screen as the same.!

Hmm... I checked w/ netscape, and I see them as different, so, I don't
think that it's netscape's fault per se, ie, I don't think it's mapping
` into ', _but_  it very well might be the fault of the font that your
netscape is using.

I've seen fonts where the ` (grave accent) and ' (single quote) are
almost indistinguishable: ie instead of looking something like:

     ****                    ****
       ***        and       ***
         **                **
           *              *

they look something like:


           *               ****
         **      and      ***
       ***               **
     ****               *

Which at a small size are _very_ hard to tell apart.

I think, but won't swear to, that I've seen this on Sun's...

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