Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> On 2023-11-25 20:50 (-4), Samuel B. wrote:
> >
> > Was there supposed to be a comment here? I ask because I tried to send a reply
> > /before/ that one, but it never showed up. It is possible I left the window
> > before sending it fully. (But I'm getting kind of paranoid...)
>
> The Web interface software is still choking on non-ASCII characters.
> Chris wrote "Creative tension... <winky face>," but the Web interface
> deleted the line because of the non-ASCII ellipsis, and perhaps the
> winky face.  The winky face showed in my newsreader as HTML entity code,
> which I had to investigate to learn that it was a winky face.

Thanks Ricky, that makes sense. (I've tried emojis on the web interface before
and nothing showed up.) I've not attempted to use a newsreader since Thunderbird
on Windows 8... I couldn't get it configured properly, so I gave up. Maybe I
should try again.

Sam

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