Formatting - Unicode UTF-8

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> > 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. ...
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Tonks_op
>

bboyminn:

In MS-Word (2000), 

- go to the [Format] menu 
- select [Autoformat...]
- in the new window that appears, select [Options]
- in the next window that appears, in the [Replace]
options, UNCheck -
... [X] Straight Quotes with Smart Quote
- Also, you might want to UNCheck -
... [X] *Bold* and _Italics_ with Real Formatting

Also, near the bottom of that window, you will find the
option -

Always Autoformat
... [X] Plain text WordMail documents

For those using MS-Word as the editor for MS-Outlook, this
option should be UNChecked.

Unless you are composing manuscripts, you shouldn't really
need to change straight quotes to left and right quotes. For
most general correspondences, straight quotes are fine. 

It also seems that UTF-8 is frequently found on UNIX/LINUX
computers.

For those who are interested, here is a source of many
UNICODE fonts...Arabic, Asian, Greek, and even Braille.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html


For general Unicode information from the same source

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/


And information specifically on Unicode UTF-8

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn