From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Quotation Marks Question
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:58:08 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:39 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quotation Marks Question

[...]
>
> The biggest problem with quotes I see online is when someone
> doesn't use quote marks at all, but resorts, perhaps unknowingly,
> to using Microsoft "smart quotes" instead.  When viewed on various
> non-Microsoft platforms, they are likely to look like anything or
> like nothing.  To me, they generally show up as a backslash followed
> by a three digit number.  223 or 224, if I recall correctly.

I occasionally get posts on other lists which were written on Macs and have
superscript "2"s and "3"s instead of quote marks and aprostrophes.

--Ted White