--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote:
> >
> > Xeno, I don't have more than one email address. Thanks
> > for helpful reply. As for other request, a solution I
> > tried last night didn't work. This morning I was rushing
> > as usual and hoping for a quick answer if one were possible.Â
> > Ok, rushing again as doc wants fasting blood work which I'm
> > off to do now. On a totally empty stomach!Â
> >
> > PSÂ I know turq likes mountains but did he really have to
> > make this molehill into one?!Â
>
> BTW, above is what your text looks like when we try
> to reply to it. The � marks are being inserted by
> whatever program you're using to write to FFL.
>
> And to "be helpful," I think I know how you can stop
> it from doing so. The problem is the program's not
> yours per se, but you're causing it by typing two
> spaces after a period. That's an old convention
> from typewriters, something that is never used in
> actual publication, or (more relevant) in HTML.
> HTML will strip out double spaces and replace them
> with single spaces.
Barry, HTML itself does not strip out double spaces, the rules simply state
that multiple spaces will be *rendered* as a single space. So it has to be the
program that modifies an HTML page, something almost all WYSIWYG editors do.
While there might be editors, the only WYSIWYG editor I know of that can be set
to import HTML and leave the code untouched is Adobe Dreamweaver.
Let me try this, this sentences has ten spaces before the word 'ten'.
And this sentence has          one space and 9 nonbreaking spaces
before the the word 'one'. I actually wrote the escaped entity for the non
breaking space, and yahoo converted it when I selected 'Preview' to what looks
like ordinary spaces when I switched back to edit. I am not in the HTML editor,
but Yahoo does it anyway. Now when I post this, we will see if those 'spaces'
remain as visual spaces or are converted to something else.
> So, in a misguided attempt to keep it from doing
> this, your program (probably Yahoo Mail) is, when
> you type two spaces in a row, replacing the first
> of them with a non-breaking space. This preserves
> the double-spacing in HTML, but unfortunately
> many browsers convert this non-breaking space to
> the � symbol we see all over your posts.
>
> As a guess, I'll bet that if you stopped typing
> double spaces after every period, the problem
> would go away.
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartaxius@>
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 7:57 AM
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: help again!
> >
> > Yes. If you send an email from an email client (not web mail), and you have
> > more than one email address one of which is not a yahoo address and you
> > mistakenly used that address, yahoo will send you that message. If you
> > don't use an email client, then it might be an indication someone has
> > hacked into your account and tried to send an email with a non yahoo
> > identified address in reply-to line. There might be other ways this could
> > happen that I have no clue about.
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just got an email supposedly from yahoo saying to verify my
> > > account!� Could this be real?
> > >
> >
>
