On comp.mail.misc, in
<1118139037.567668.240090@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "wylbur37" wrote:
>
>
> I'm using Windows XP Pro, and Yahoo Mail. Occasionally, some
> email messages contain some unusual characters that consist of
> 3-letter sequences starting with some characters that resemble
> the letters "a" and "E" (but aren't) followed by a third
> character. Here are some examples ...
>
> publi****ng’s
>
> Contract " A Primer
>
> a “love song” to
>
>
> What causes this?
>
> Is someone using a keyboard from a different system (e.g., a
> Mac) that's generating these characters?
>
> Or is it caused by improperly im****ting a word-processing
> do***ent into plain text?
>
> Is there something I can do on my part to correct these
> sequences?
>
It's probably UTF-8. Ascii-compatible Unicode. If
you have the right software, they print characters
not found in the English language, and formatting
'characters' too, I believe. See also: UCS.
Most web browsers and modern mail clients can interpret
them. Even newsreaders.
Could be a different keyboard, but not necessarily
or even usually.
How come you have an Earthlink account and could easily use
OE to read and post from news.east.earthlink.net, yet choose
to use the incredibly awkward google web interface to the
Usenet?
The local troll, "Sam" (his/her/its main alias) posts,
in childish defiance of the Netiquette [because
he/she/it thinks this impresses people], with many of
those characters. Or used to. Haven't read any of
his/her/its posts in years. If he/she/it still does
have the weird headers, copy the body to notepad and
check it out.
AC
--
alanconnor AT earthlink DOT net
Use your real return address or I'll never know you
even tried to mail me. http://tinyurl.com/2t5kp
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