Bottom line - this has nothing at all to do with Legacy, so why is this subject being driven into the ground.
Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:27 PM, "Brian L. Lightfoot" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > > 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
