Quebec Govt Sued For Ignoring Free Software

Mathieu Lutfy writes "The CBC is reporting that 'Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company's products rather than using free alternatives. ... Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused and goes against other legal requirements to buy locally.' The group also has a press release in English."

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Encoding please???

[spectrokid]

Why can't Slashdot get encoding right? I know that for Americans, 26 should be enough for everyone, but for christsake, this is 2008!!
Let's do some testing here:
à -This is a large Scandinavian O with slash
Ã- -This is a Captial O umlaut
ã -A spanish a-tilde
à -A french e-circonflex
On my PC, the same one I wrote it on, they all render like A-tilde. Come on coders!!!