[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Apostrophising over Yahoo!

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

On 2003-12-18 00:21, thomasmwall at yahoo.com wrote:

>June wrote:
>I'm sure glad to see these [apostrophe] posts, I was worried it was 
>just me - even on two different computers, and too paranoid to ask 
>if anyone else had it.
>
>pathetic really./END QUOTE
>
>Tom, laughing spasmodically, falls out of his chair and onto the 
>floor.
>
>Tom:
>June! That's *exactly* what I was thinking! I'm glad that you caught 
>it first, and that I'm not alone. 
>
>Could a techno-master [i.e. not me] explain what the heck that stuff 
>means and why it would happen? ;-)
>  
>
The ' is a magic word used in html language, in which web pages and 
sometimes e-mails are written, to denote an apostrophe since apostrophe 
itself is magic in html. Another example is & for an ampersand. If 
those appeared in the yahoo pages, Yahoo hosed something with their 
normal text to html conversions. If those appeared in plain text (i.e. 
not html) e-mails send to you, Yahoo hosed their html to plain text 
conversion. If those appeared in both e-mails and Yahoo pages, sender of 
the message hosed using misconfigured email client or web browser.

Regards,


-- 
Przemyslaw 'Pshemekan' Plaskowicki
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. (Horace, Odes)