From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Eats, Shoots & Leaves....
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:37:11 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Jan 14, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Mike B. wrote:

> On a web page I wouldn't expect there to be a problem.  The HTTP can
> specify the character set in use, and the web page can specify the
> quotes
> with &quot; anyway, so the browser will use whatever the local
> character
> set offers for  that.  I suspect that the author of that site was just
> using single characters rather than the &quot; mechanism, and when the
> viewer's system didn't have the right character set on it,
> weirdness set in.

So, I should send all my email as Adobe PDF attachments?
That way I can get all my quotes to look right, use en-dashes
and em-dashes, and use proper ligatures.  What do you think, Keith?

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow