Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? (Side Track)

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote:
> > Carol again:
> > Mine is set to Western unless I'm reading Tonks's posts, which 
> require me to set it to Unicode so the quotation marks and apostrophes 
> won't show up as gibberish.
> > > 
> 
> 
> Tonks here:
> 
> Hey... wait a minute. I stopped proofing it is Word first, I have
been using Yahoo mail to check my spelling and then cuting and
pasteing back from there. Are you STILL getting giberish?? boo..
hoo... Say it isn't so.. I just typed this straight into the group,
but I can't spell and need a spell check. I am getting spoiled at
Yahoo Answers because you can post there and check your spelling and
even go back and fix any boo-boos that you made after you posted it.
> 
> Tonks_OP
> Who thinks that Carol's biosphear is really cool.
>
Carol responds:

Glad you liked Biosphere 2 (though if you look it up on Google, you'll
want to spell "sphere" with two e's and no a). If you ever come to
Tucson (which should *not* be in summer!), it's definitely worth a
visit. If I recall correctly, a group of people actually lived there
for awhile, rather like living on the space shuttle but less cramped
(and less dangerous).

Back to the gibberish in posts, this particular post came out fine,
even the apostrophe. Maybe it's only quotation marks that cause the
problem. If so, turning off "Smart quotes" in Word might solve the
problem.

What do you have the character encoding set to? (Look under "Character
encoding" in the View menu at the top of the page in your Web
browser--IE or Firefox or Netscape if you're obstinate like me.)

Carol, who doesn't trust spell checks but finds some of their
suggestions amusing (*grammar* checks are next to worthless!)