[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [ubuntu-web] Ubuntu 12.04 Countdown banner competition

[Jim Price]

On 22/02/12 18:16, Alan Bell wrote:
> any artistic types out there who want to get their work a *huge* number
> of views
> (and no, I don't know what the  characters are in the mail)

This explains the  characters:

http://ask.metafilter.com/71246/What-the-%C3%82

Watch the %C3%82 change into an  if your browser interprets it and it 
works. If it doesn't work, there is probably something wrong with your 
browser. Also, if it doesn't work it's best summarised by this line from 
the web page:

"I had managed to write half of what was a very detailed explanation of 
the difference between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. I lost it in a freak 
keyboard accident and am not going to repeat it."

Ubuntu uses UTF-8 for most things. ISO-8859-1 is polluted by the 
Microsoft "we are the standard" implementation, which seems so prevalent 
that I even had to change the default settings in Thunderbird to avoid it.

If you can read my .sig, your UTF-8 is working.

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