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		cratermoon on Nov 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan I chose paps over enscript or groff because it handles utf8. With groff you get garbage like âshrinkâ, and enscript generates "Buttons marked â\200\234call for assistanceâ\200\235". Fun times

kmstout on Nov 25, 2022 [–]

I'll remember this if I ever recreate my RSS to five-column-PDF-emailed-to-myself-every-morning setup. I had to do some ungood things to make BBC articles safe for LaTeX back then.

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