On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Alex Stanley <[email protected]>wrote:
> ** > > > > > --- In [email protected], Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.ravi@...> > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: > > > > > P.S. I am working to try and get rid of those very irritating "A's" > that > > > show up in my posts. > > > > > > I have had issues with this as well - it only happens when I use > > the Gmail web client, I'm sure the same applies for you - you must > > be using Yahoo's web mail interface. > > Yes, she is. What's strange is that the characters don't show up in her > actual posts, either on the website or in my Gmail feed that I read in > Thunderbird. But, the characters do show up on the website in message view, > as well as in the quoted text when making a reply via the website. If I > click reply to the same post of hers in Thunderbird, the characters don't > show up in Thunderbird's editor. > > I'm pretty competent with computers, but I'm nowhere near the kind of > neckbeard who would know what this is all about. > Right - but look at this - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/327831, this one has those special characters and I'm not going to try my Notepad technique so I reproduce the special characters with generous use of backspace in this post. The technique I described works for me - to eliminate the special characters on the Web.
