Formatting (Was: Why Rowling should not have outed DD)

[Carol]

bboyminn:
> > 
> > First you can correct Tonks original Post by switching the View of
your browser's Character Encoding to Unicode(UTF-8).
> >  
> > First, if you are using MS-Outlook for your email program, it is
probably set to use MS-Word to compose messages, further MS-Word is
probably set to match single and double quote marks into pair. <snip>
MS-Word has a formating option to automatically switch match pairs of
quote from generic marks to matching left leaning and right leaning
marks. These left and right quote marks are from a different part of
the character set than the standard generic marks. Consequently, they
do not display properly.
> > 
> > You can avoid this by setting the Options in MS-Word to not
automatically format quotes into matching pairs.
> > 
> 
> Tonks:
> My brower is set for the UTF-8. I do use Word to compose and then I
cut and paste to the list. Are the quote marks the only problem? It 
drives me crazy when it puts the quotes upside down like that, but I 
never knew what to do about it. Can I change the formatting just for
that or will it throw other things off?

>
Carol:
Hi, Tonks.
If you temporarily set your browser to Western (ISO-8859-1) and go
back to the original post, you'll see how the post looked to me before
I set my own browser to Unicode to view it correctly. It was mostly
the apostrophes that were affected. I can't duplicate the way they
looked, but it was something like "aCTM," with a circumflex (a symbol
like an upside-down v) over the "a" and two little crossmarks (like
the crossing of a lowercase "t") through the capital "C." The TM was a
superscript like the symbol for "trademark." Hard to read, as you can
imagine.

If you prefer to cut and paste from Word rather just typing your posts
onlist (as I do), it might be a good idea to turn off all automatic
formatting, which you can do using the Tools menu. (You can always
turn the features you want back on again if you're using Word for some
other purpose.) 

I'm not sure, but I think that Steve is talking about the "change
straight quotes to smart [curly] quotes" feature. I didn't find an
option for keeping single quotes together. (Steve, please correct me
if I'm wrong. I have Word 2000 and the newer versions may be different.)

Carol, now wondering if she should change the default setting on her
browser to Unicode but deciding against it for the moment