From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Toon Moene To: Bernard Dautrevaux Cc: Ken Whaley , Sergey Ostrovsky , "H . J . Lu" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:16:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B56979A.6A45A932@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E2EB@IIS000> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01334.html Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: [ This is getting off-topic fast, but one time more ... ] > I'm not sure I understand you: I get the original mail from Ken (through the > mailing list of course) with proper quotes! It seems it's YOUR Operating > System Of Choice (or one of the mail relays between the mailing list and > your system) that replace quotes with question marks... This is how my inbox sees the quotes of the text Ken sent: I\x92ve just gone through this process, pretty much exactly as Sergey described, including digging around trying to find info on what patches, versions, etc. of the tools are required, and agree that it\x92s a sort of black magic. Saying \x93use an official released version to build your system\x94 becomes a lot more palatable if there would always Doesn't look like the ASCII ' encoding to me ... [ If you're still not convinced, I can send you an `od' dump of the mail ] -- Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html Join GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction)