Thanks to all for the information I can now go back to Aussie talk knowing that these symbols really don't effect Legacy. Ron, I feel it did warrant explaining as it effects the UG forum and as you say not Legacy.
Doug Tighe On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ronald Bernier <ronaldbern...@icloud.com>wrote: > Bottom line - this has nothing at all to do with Legacy, so why is this > subject being driven into the ground. > > Ron Bernier > Woonsocket, RI > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:27 PM, "Brian L. Lightfoot" <br...@the-lightfoots.com> > wrote: > > Yes, that is mostly true but I think that using HTML can send certain > characters that cannot be directly represented in plain text. One of the > biggest examples are the emoticons. If I send a "smiley" face in plain > text, it consists of 3 separate characters (colon, hyphen, close > parenthesis) but within HTML, those get re-interpreted by whatever > characters set the user is using (Windows, Mac, etc) and is changed to one > smiley face character usually from a special symbols typeface. And another > example is this: I will insert a “horizontal line” below this paragraph. > You should see it because I am sending in HTML. If you attempt to reply to > this message and switch to plain text, I think the horizontal line will > disappear entirely. > > > > Horizontal line here: > ------------------------------ > > > > One character smiley face here: J > > > > Beyond that, I think the OP can rest easy about any weird characters > showing up on messages in this forum. Usually one can determine what the > original character was intended to be. > > > > Brian in CA > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
