Michael JasonSmith wrote:
But I may have been writing some verse, and not trying to write a haiku. But the fact that it sounded like a haikuâ :P
OK. So I keep seeing these funny chars in Michael's posts. After the word haiku above, and before the :P, I see three chars: an a with a hat (circumflex?) a C crossed with an =, and a | with a gap. Checking the email headers, I see that his post uses UTF-8 charset, but my email client (Thunderbird) is displaying it in ISO-8859-1. I can change the character encoding to UTF-8 manually, and then I get the three dots (ellipsis?) that I expected. (Of course, just typing ... is too easy, right? And us LaTeX geeks know that ... is different anyway. But a special ... for a plain-text medium like email? That's just too... silly)
This sort of thing I would expect to be handled automatically by Thunderbird which is, otherwise, a pretty decent email client. At least, I haven't fingured out how to get Thunderbird to do this automatically yet.
Cheers-in-UTF-8-but-normal-dots... Carl
