On 4/19/12 6:39 PM, Lyn Bailey wrote:
Sorry, all, evidently the filters take all apostrophes and quotation marks and do weird things to them. Here it is without such marks. Please let me know if there is also a problem with question marks. I will try to do better.
Weird characters are usually the result of reading text written with one standard with a reader set for a different standard. (Happens most often when something is pasted into a document that tells readers it's a different standard from the pasted-in stuff, but lots of writing programs default to a standard that very few reading programs can handle. Some use a proprietary standard that only that particular program can read.) Most standards in current use include plain old seven-bit ASCII -- which doesn't even have all the characters you need to write the American English it was created for, but there are work-arounds: ue for u-umlaut, co-operate for coo"perate, and so forth. (The latter work-around took over when nineteenth-century typists got tired of hand-drawing the two little dots, and is now standard even in media where the old spelling would be easier.) But it can be hard to persuade a "reads mail, reads news, browses, and cleans the kitchen sink" program to write in ASCII, and even "plain text" is apt to be written in some private code. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
