Paul Tram wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions on the lightsaber.  And
what do you mean by smart quotes?  I posted it as
plain text...maybe I did something wrong?  How did it
turn out on your end?  

Here is a sample of how it came out on my end...
-=-=-=-=-=-
^�We^�ll be arriving at the Academy in a few minutes.^�

At the shuttlecraft pilot^�s announcement, half of the
-=-=-=-=-=-

That's not smart quotes, it's the character set.
You're probably in ISO-8859-1 mode while this is
UTF-8. UTF-8 is slowly becoming the character set
of choice. All major linux distros now set UTF-8
as the default. Windows has been UTF-8 since W2K.
Switch the character encoding in the view menu of
your emailer. In Thunderbird, it's
view->Character encoding->Unicode (UTF-8)

If you are in UTF-8, then try switching to
Western (ISO-8859-1) and see if that looks better.

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