Eric Muller <emuller at adobe dot com> wrote: > Doug Ewell wrote: > >> [...] about "You see, boys and girls, computers think only in >> numbers" -- in a Silicon Valley paper, > > > [...] Should we tell them about ârealâ quotes? > > âreal quotesâ are not just for Web publication; they are also for > email. > Throw in real dashes, of the kind â en or em â you prefer
Nice. I contend that my use of straight quotes and ASCII hyphi in an ephemeral e-mail is far less offensive than the Mercury News'(s) use of ``this abomination'' in a professionally written article. That said, I can try to improve my use of real Unicode punctuation on these lists, if I have time to paste it in (since my keyboard doesn't support it). I remember being told by someone a few years back that I should limit my use of UTF-8 on the Unicode list, due to the inability of some list members' e-mail software to handle it. At the time I was one of those members with a Unicode-ignorant e-mail client, and I still didn't agree with the suggestion. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
