On 18 Feb 99, at 1:00, List-Managers-Digest wrote:
>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:24:20 -0800
>From: Nancy Charlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: HTML in email to lists
>
>I just subscribed to this list. I manage a small general e-mail
>discussion group, the CS List, and participate in several other ones.
>
>As to accented characters, my Eudora Lite 3.0 lets me use the Alt + keypad
>to write the accented characters in the high ASCII set, but I don't know
>whether these are correct on all the receiving sets. Most people are so
>inured to the rudimentary typesetting capacities of ordinary e-mail that
>they don't worry much about it.
Most people that don't have IBM PC-compatibles are not receiving the
correct characters. And some that do have those won't, depending
on the applications. High-ASCII (character numbers > 127) isn't
standardized, at all, at all.
I certainly agree with the need for having the accents and other
formatting marks. Unicode is the solution, IMO, but it'll be a while
before there are end-to-end implementations of it. Windows NT
does implement it to an extend, as I am given to understand from
snippets of Microsoft documentation.
>Some of the llists I participate in are literary discussions, and there is
>a frequent need for real accents, real italics or underlining, and real
>symbols instead of makehift equivalents such as all caps or _ before &
>after titles of books. Rules for these things exist in abundance, but
>when it is impossible to practice uniform observances of them, it becomes
>a free-for-all.
>
<SNIP>
>I do have a specific question: does anyone know how to prevent Eudora
>from putting down a rank of angle brackets down the left side of forwarded
>messages? Or if it won't, is there any e-mailer that will?
Pegasus Mail lets you specify what characters you wish to use for
the mark on the left side of the message, anywhere from ">" (the
default) to much longer strings.
Anthony J. Albert
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