[rescue] Baffling and unwanted fonts

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 2021-09-29 11:09, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 15:21, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
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>> The irony is especially thick in these last four lines.
> That's very worrying; thanks for drawing it to my attention. It's odd
> as they're all simple ANSI characters, no Unicode or double-byte
> characters except for the D -- and unfortunately it's not in my power
> to rename the country I live in.
>
> I tested it in a Linux console, no X.11 or anything, and it still
> looks fine at my end.
>
> I've swapped the en-dashes to bullets; any better now?

No -- what is the font and encoding on your terminal set to?

(Incidentally, I am posting this as ASCII.B  What is appearing?)

N.

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