There are some days where I suspect the term "Microsoft Smart Quote" is an oxymoron of the highest order....sort of like "Government Intelligence"....
Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V -----Original Message----- From: Ben Okopnik Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 3:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] The latest in ship to shore transportation On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:58:07AM -0800, Eric T. wrote: > Steve, > AHA! Right back at you. > Your use of the "Reply" function explains it then. > Now if I could just figure out who IS using that weird setting > that is so hard for me to read... It's very likely to be the Windows encoding - since the characters that come up looking weird are the Microsoft "smart quotes". I used to get tons of that kind of noise while editing articles for the Linux Gazette, so I wrote a script called "demoronize" that converted the "smart" quotes into the normal kind. :) Ben -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
