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Home Front: Politix
Lawmaker's Son Charged in Tire-Slashing
2005-01-25
Third time we've had this story on Rantburg.
Posted by:tipper

#13  (on topic)
What about the principle of respondeat superior? Shouldn't the Kerry Campaign be held responsible for the actions of its workers?

And why is it that Democrats have "activists" whereas Republicans have "extremists"?
Posted by: eLarson   2005-01-25 10:39:48 AM  

#12  Fred's up fixing RB issues early in the a.m. Thanks Fred!
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-01-25 10:15:43 AM  

#11  Also charged were Lewis Caldwell, Lavelle Mohammad[emphasis added], and Justin Howell.

Big surprise(not).
Posted by: Steve from Relto   2005-01-25 10:04:13 AM  

#10  OK, I just tried that in Firefox under WinXP, and it's still garfed up.

Thank you Bill Gates!
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-01-25 9:58:36 AM  

#9  From #8 - Yep, that's got it, and I can see the original artistic intent of each site designer. :)
Posted by: eLarson   2005-01-25 9:56:31 AM  

#8  On Firefox / Linux I selected View -> Character Encoding -> Auto-detect -> Universal and that seemed to do the trick.

Dont know about others.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-01-25 9:50:07 AM  

#7  Yeah, now I do, too: I'm on my computer at work, completely different symptoms.

WTF... I guess if stuff like this didn't happen, we wouldn't have jobs. LOL!
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-01-25 9:45:32 AM  

#6  OT - Fonts
Dave D. - I set my browser to use my fonts all the time, switched to Book Antiqua and ISO-8859-1 and I can see the long dashes, apostrophes, etc., in the article. However looking down at the comments as I type this, I see all manner of strange characters.
Posted by: eLarson   2005-01-25 9:36:52 AM  

#5  Eds -

I've included the fix for this in the "squish" function. I'll apply it to the regular save routine when I get a few minutes.
Posted by: Fred   2005-01-25 8:59:19 AM  

#4  YW, Mrs. Davis. But I'm still trying to find an encoding setting that unravels the following:

"The activists � all employees of the John Kerry (news - web sites) campaign � are accused of..."

What I see there, are question marks where the original Yahoo article had "long dash" characters.

When I look at the page source for the Yahoo article, I can see the character was written as an HTML code (an ampersand, a pound sign, then "151" for the ASCII code for long dash), but my theory is that the code doesn't carry over when copying and pasting the article to Rantburg.

Does ANYONE see long dashes instead of question marks in the text I italicized above? If so, then my theory is wrong...
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-01-25 8:22:41 AM  

#3  Thanks, Dave.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-01-25 7:45:51 AM  

#2  Try a different Character Encoding setting on your web browser. Unicode (UTF-8) will make the apostrophes display properly in the text samples you cited.
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-01-25 6:14:22 AM  

#1  why does the print look like this..didn’ or this Omokunde’ ??
Posted by: inquiring mind??   2005-01-25 4:26:04 AM  

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