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:::::::Couldn't put it better myself (I didn't!). As already noted, the £ glyph is just a random example, the issue is widespread. Which takes me back to my first challenge to the section. It is worse than misleading while it remains unqualified. --[[User:John Maynard Friedman|John Maynard Friedman]] ([[User talk:John Maynard Friedman|talk]]) 16:05, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
:::::"... while <u>it</u> remains unqualified." Sorry, what is "it"? My revised wording begins, "Some programs running in [[Microsoft Windows]], including [[Microsoft Word|Word]] and [[Wordpad]] ...". Isn't that sufficient qualification? I don't see a need, here, to mention that whether one can produce {{char|£}}, {{char|Ð}}, etc. on [[Notepad]] or [[Visual Basic for Applications|VBA]] depends on the code page in effect. [[User:Peter M. Brown|Peter Brown]] ([[User talk:Peter M. Brown|talk]]) 19:05, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
::::::"it" = "the text". The text that says that this method works when the real story is "it depends". Setting ever tighter parameters so that we can continue to say that it works is being "[[economical with the truth]]". We need to say that the method doesn't work reliably for keyboard settings outside the Americas, Western Europe, Southern Africa, A&NZ and (former) Western European colonies. IMO. --[[User:John Maynard Friedman|John Maynard Friedman]] ([[User talk:John Maynard Friedman|talk]]) 20:07, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
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