[thelist] Strange symbols...

Hi Shelley,

I'm going to take a stab at it and guess it's an HTML thing.  Special
characters such as the double-quote (") can be interpreded incorrectly by
some browsers.  These special characters have HTML equivalents (such as
'"' for the double-quote) that should be used in HTML Documents.  Most
HTML editing programs (such as HomeSite) have a "Replace Special Characters"
command that will make this conversion for you automagically.

Hope this helps,

Seth

:) -----Original Message-----
:) From: Shelley Sherman [mailto:shel@pintsize.com]
:) Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:02 PM
:) To: The List
:) Subject: [thelist] Strange symbols...
:) 
:) 
:) Hi,
:) 
:) Would anyone care to help me out on this?  I am cutting and pasting
:) articles straight from email to the client's site.  One viewer of the
:) site wrote this message:
:) 
:) For me, your stuff arrives full of strange symbols that apparently
:) replace
:) >>punctuation you have used. I use the current version of Internet
:) Explorer
:) >>to browse the Internet from my Macintosh, and I suspect others may
:) have the
:) >>same problem. I think if you replaced the smart (curly) apostrophes
:) and
:) >>quotes with plain apostrophes and quotes and forsook 
:) italics, the text
:) 
:) >>would be more readable.
:) >>
:) >>Here are a couple of samples of what I got in the January issue:
:) >>
:) >>ìOh?î I said, surprised. ìWhat do I usually smell like?î
:) 
:) Is this a mac thing?  A font thing?  A browser thing?  Can anyone
:) suggest a fix?
:) The URL is www.thesunmagazine.org
:) Thank you so much.
:) Shel
:) 
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