On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Ravi Chivukula <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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. > > Hmm..no special characters in this one , either way these are non-ASCII characters which should be eliminated if you type a post in pure text based editor such as Notepad.
