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 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Â Â Â On 2013/11/05 19:28, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > Now you know why one of the rules for this board is that we should all > be using PLAIN TEXT instead of sending in HTML which is probably the > default setting for most users. We all forget to change the setting > and as a consequence we have to learn to read though all those weird > characters that may show up. Sort of like the weird characters that > show up at your high school reunion --- just ignore them. This is nothing to do with plain text or HTML, and everything to do with character sets and encoding of characters within the emails. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
