on 1/22/2001 3:36 PM, Tangent <tangent@zbzoom.net> wrote:
Still have the goofy characters coming through - seems to be confined
to quotation marks and apostrophes for the most part. If I may ask,
what are you using to edit this story with? There may be some setting
or another that needs tweaked a bit.
It's UTF-8 encoding of typographic quotes and apostrophes. You can see the
character set from his mail headers:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Language: en
X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 130
To avoid using these characters, you have to convert to ditto marks
(typewriter quotes) before sending.
My mail client (Outlook Express for Mac 5.02) displays the quote marks just
fine, as do most modern mail clients, but obviously not everyone's can. In
any case the list FAQ says to send 7-bit ASCII plain text.
I don't want to start a meta-discussion that is clearly off-topic, but it's
worth thinking about the fact that more and more mail clients send things
like this as a matter of default, and many of the list members may not be
expert enough to disable this.
If anyone wants to continue to discuss this, please send private e-mail, as
it's off-topic.
Deborah