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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:56:11 GMT, Ivan wrote:

despite what
Billy boy would have you believe.

Who is Billy boy? No boys around here called Billy! Moaning old gits
yes . . .

I thought he was referring to 'Bill' Gate's

I was referring to Gates. I don't know why you using apostrophes. It seems
you don't either.

wrote in message
oups.com...
The point is, the majority of people know very little about how
computers work. What you're saying is analagous to suggesting that
everyone should get the bonnet up and adjust the carburettor from time
to time. The whole computer thing is user-unfriendly to an extent that
no-one would tolerate with any other consumer item.

I use three different computers to access the newsgroups and I have the
same problems with all of them. To me that suggests fundamental system
shortcomings, not maladjustments at this end. I just can't see why I
can't import from Word without the message getting messed up. It can't
be so difficult for the experts to alter something so that any text
imported can be transmitted properly. Some sort of import filter or
conversion routine perhaps?

Well you are talking about microsoft so you should expect it to
be ****e. In my opinion you should be able to grab text from words
without the embeded control characters, its probably not
so dificult to do, easy infact but then microsoft wants to kill off
other formats tp increase its monopoly.
If there a text selection tool like in Adobe Acrobat?


Bill

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:23:48 +0000, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:56:11 GMT, Ivan wrote:

despite what
Billy boy would have you believe.

Who is Billy boy? No boys around here called Billy! Moaning old gits
yes . . .

I thought he was referring to 'Bill' Gate's

I was referring to Gates. I don't know why you using apostrophes. It seems
you don't either.

I don't know why you aren't: surely you mean "... why you're using ..."

Apologies. I just had a John Porcella moment.
shudder


B.
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:25:21 GMT, Donald McTrevor wrote:


wrote in message
roups.com...
The point is, the majority of people know very little about how
computers work. What you're saying is analagous to suggesting that
everyone should get the bonnet up and adjust the carburettor from time
to time. The whole computer thing is user-unfriendly to an extent that
no-one would tolerate with any other consumer item.

I use three different computers to access the newsgroups and I have the
same problems with all of them. To me that suggests fundamental system
shortcomings, not maladjustments at this end. I just can't see why I
can't import from Word without the message getting messed up. It can't
be so difficult for the experts to alter something so that any text
imported can be transmitted properly. Some sort of import filter or
conversion routine perhaps?

Well you are talking about microsoft so you should expect it to
be ****e. In my opinion you should be able to grab text from words
without the embeded control characters, its probably not
so dificult to do, easy infact but then microsoft wants to kill off
other formats tp increase its monopoly.
If there a text selection tool like in Adobe Acrobat?

Most applications, even M$ ones either put plain ASCII text into the clipboard,
or with something like word, put a text version & a native version in it. So
either:

The app is not generating a text only version
It is generating a "native" version, but calling it text.

Or

There are both versions available and the pasting app is using "native".

Given that M$ assume (or intends that) the World uses Word and IE then the
latter is likely.

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Dave Saville

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Dave Saville wrote:

Most applications, even M$ ones either put plain ASCII text into the
clipboard,
or with something like word, put a text version & a native version in
it. So
either:

In the old days this may have been true, but nowadays they put UTF-8
encoded Unicode. I know this to be true since I have just had to fix a
webapp to automatically translate some of the more common Unicode
characters coming out of Word. For day to day use US english users will
not notice the difference, but as Bill is encountering anyone else
(Greeks using omega, British using pounds, Word users using
smartquotes) tend to get shafted.

Steve

Va zrffntr
. pb.hx.vainyvq, Nyna
Crzoregba jebgr

All this RFC nonsense is pure ********. In future I intend posting in my
proprietorial version of English, Pembers-2005, which I can understand
perfectly well,

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Alan wrote:
Va zrffntr
. pb.hx.vainyvq, Nyna
Crzoregba jebgr

All this RFC nonsense is pure ********. In future I intend posting
in my proprietorial version of English, Pembers-2005, which I can
understand perfectly well,

Lbh ner Ovyyl Tngrf naq V pynvz zl 5 TOC

You ain't gettin my fiver.