Re: I'm sure glad I didn't buy a Mac Mini!

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:29:57 -0700, Hasta La Vista wrote
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"C Lund" <clund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <OP2dne-ea_9a1UDanZ2dnUVZ_siknZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Hasta La Vista" <noemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"C Lund" <clund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yep. Reason? OSX.
How is that a reason to pay so much more for a computer?
Because you want to *use* your computer.
How is it you're exchanging messages with me if OSX is
required
to
*use*
a computer?
Because you're happy with "usually works, sorta".
No I'm not.
An example of "usually works, sorta" is when I send an email to
somebody using Outlook. If that email contains european
characters,
such as æ, ø, or å, there's a pretty good chance that Outlook
will
replace them with chinese characters. This is because of MS's
crappy
implementation of UTF-8. I think this might also be a problem
with
Word.
It might be an example if it actually were true.
It *is* true. Try googling the topic and you'll find others who
experience the same things. Hey, I'll even google one for you:
It's not true for me,
So what?
So what you said about me is not true. Why does that fail to make an
impact on you?

It's not any less true

What you claimed about me is untrue and will continue to be untrue no matter
what else you write. IOW, you've eliminated all possibility that you made a
mistake and are just an unrepentant liar.


just because you're lucky enough to not be
affected by this particular bug. You have no guarantee that this won't
affect you in the future.

I take the fact you think it will happen as my guarantee it won't! :-D

You've just been lucky.
Or you've just been unlucky.

Me? No. I'm not using Windows. I'm not affected by this at all.

Or you ought to update your software.

Why should I? This is not a problem that affects maccies.

It's only a problem that affects people who use Outlook and who also get
email from you. I begin to see why filters were created! :-D

Or
just take the easy solution.

I did; that's why I use a mac. B)

Just to make problems for Outlook? :-D

Or maybe you don't exchange much data with
continental europeans.
I don't, but it works for me nonetheless. On more than one system.

Then how do you know it works for you?

Because it works when I do use it.

I have no trouble seeing
your æ, ø or å as they should be, and I can easily type them back
to
you.
Good for you. There are people I email regularly who do have the
problem I described. Just because you are lucky enough to have a
Windows system that can handle these letters doesn't mean that
everybody does. It just means that Windows isn't consistent.
You didn't find a problem with Windows, you found a problem with
Outlook,
which is merely an application running on Windows.
I know you read G Graves post on the topic. This is more than Outlook.
No, it's just Outlook. George was trying to have an old version of Word
recognize formatting commands from a new version of Word.

Why would that make any difference?

The people who wrote the program couldn't look into the future to see how
the document formatting commands would change.

The current version of Pages can
read documents written by ClarisWorks (which is an outdated,
discontinued app from the early 90s). Why can't new versions of Word
read docs made by old versions of Word?

It can. The problem was George trying to get an OLD VERSION of Word to
understand the output of a new version of Word.

Except in that particular case, MS insists that the file formats are the same
for the versions of Word in question. Sorry. Also if one writes a document
in Word for Mac, and saves it as a current Word for Windows file, All ASCI
Characters above 255 will be missing when the file is opened with a current
version of Word on Windows (and vice-versa). These incomaptibilities are
mostly caused because Windows font sets are incomplete and special characters
have to be accessed from a special menu. On the Mac, Characters above ASCI
255 are available in each type face simply by pressing the option key and
shift option keys as you type and are consistent through every application
and every version of the OS and the applications running on it.

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