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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by rsynnott on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:32AM (#33080938)
> but it’s actually a UTF-8/Windows-1252 issue.

Or possibly ISO-8859-1, which is, helpfully, slightly different.

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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by colejohnson66 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:18PM (#33083514)
True. But, in this case, I'm betting it's Windows-1252. The character in Ch'ien's name is most likely `U+2099 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK`. In UTF-8, that's `E2 80 99`. ISO-8859-1 doesn't have 80 or 99 defined, but Windows-1252 would decode it to ’ (what's on the card).
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