Strange formatting in message

Charles Martin chasm at mac.com
Tue Jul 8 01:10:36 PDT 2003


> From: e.mkeene <e.mkeene at wap.org>
>
>> I have listened to all the discussion on this list about these two=20
>
> I typed this message the same way I have all my other email and
> messages but all of a sudden I see these extra characters in this
> message. Does anybody have any ideas on what caused the extra
> characters to show up? TIA

Yes. A non-ASCII character crept into your message somewhere. It could 
have been a curled quote or apostrophe, or a graphic typographical 
character like a bullet, or something else.

_Chas_

"The Mac interface is not 'sexy', and it would be grotesque to want it 
to be. It is, in fact, playful, often well over the line into 
frivolity. The bouncing icons (and the puffs of smoke and the 
pipe-organ speech synthesizer and the way dialogs tidily resize and the 
drop-shadows on the windows and the jellybean buttons and the eject key 
on the keyboard) are not individually rationalizable on utilitarian 
grounds, and they do not pretend they mean to be. They are there to, in 
aggregate, change the nature of your relationship with the device. They 
are joyful, and they hope their joy is infectious." -- Glenn McDonald



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