Mike, I'm seeing this increasingly from certain lists/individuals. Neither I nor the senders seem to know what to do about it.
Any suggestions. M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] [META] Re: NYTimes.com: Degrees and Dollars Natalia wrote: > *Peo\255ple's in\255ter\255est in mu\255sic may be > re\255lat\255ed.... This article copied from http://www.world-science.net/ has what I regard as an insane typographical feature: Every word is pre-hyphenated with a non-ASCII byte value. Looking at the original site, I see that it uses *two different* non-ASCII byte values to pre-hyphenate every word so your software must have translated those bytes. Is it not possible with the usual MS Windows tools y'all use, to run stuff copied from web pages through an editor that will elide this and other useless artifacts, reducing text to plain ASCII before putting it into email? And (while I'm griping) is it intentional that many posts to FW are sent in "quoted-printable" encoding of a Microsoft font that uses non-ASCII characters and as both text and HTML in "multipart-alternative" MIME duplication? Well, maybe doing email in ASCII is too much for a cranky old geezer such as I, who doesn't even have a facebook page, to ask. If so, I'll just shut up and go back to making bamboo splits for by buggy whip manufactory. And I'll try write something substantive on topic next time. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
