Posting to thesite was: [thelist] Strange symbols...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Oliver Lineham [SMTP:oliver@lineham.co.nz]
> 
> Its none of those - its an illegal code thing.  Your code is breaking all 
> sorts of rules by including characters that aren't standard ASCII.
> 
> Eg. I'm looking at the URL http://www.thesunmagazine.org/sturlusa.html for
> 
> this example:
> 
> You put: "Chronic rheumatoid arthritis,"
> 
> The quotes at either end show up as a black rectangle in most text editors
> 
> (including my email program) because they are not standard ASCII 
> characters. They will especially cause problems with people not using
> Windows.
> 
> You should either put: "Chronic rheumatoid arthritis,"
> 
> Or: "Chronic rheumatoid arthritis,"
> 
> " is the HTML entity reference for the double-quote.
> 
> 
[Burns, Martin]  
Can I remind people posting to thesite to also escape their chars? " is
the least intrusive one - if you're posting code, please, please, please
escape < and > (otherwise bits of your article will be interpreted as tags
and some of the article will disappear), space to &nbsp; (otherwise your
nicely indented code won't be) and | (otherwise the submission will break
entirely).

Martin Burns
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