DREAD QUESTIONMARK DISEASE


Meaning of DREAD QUESTIONMARK DISEASE in English

n. The result of saving HTML from Microsoft Word or some other program that uses the nonstandard Microsoft variant of Latin-1; the symptom is that various of those nonstandard characters in positions 128-160 show up as questionmarks. The usual culprit is the misnamed `smart quotes' feature in Microsoft Word. For more details (and a program called `demoroniser' that cleans up the mess) see http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ .

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.