Punting, Bowling, Chinese input, UTF-8

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<img src="http://www.cyrius.com/images/punting.jpg" class="right"
 width="182" height="275" alt="Martin punting on the river Cam" />

Today I went bowling with some friends from the department.  Even though I
quite like bowling, it has been over three years since I last went.  I
managed to win the first game (but none of us were terribly great so that
doesn't mean much) but then got third in the second one&hellip; a really nice
afternoon.  Last Saturday we went punting on the Cam when the weather was
really beautiful.

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Tonight I played around with SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) and the
simplified Chinese (pinyin) input method.  It's pretty simple to install
and use&hellip; you basically enter pinyin and then get to choose from a number
of characters.  Playing around with this prompted me into looking at moving
to UTF-8 again.  I'm sure that everyone else has done that already, but I
haven't had a big need for it until now and my last attempt failed
miserably.  As it turns out, it was just a font problem which I have now
more or less solved.  Now I'll have to convert all my existing documents
and see what other issues I'll run into&hellip;

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