Mistakes in punctuation

David Pilling via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sun, 17 Oct 2021 06:46:21 PDT
Hi Uli,

There are no problems in the versions of your post that I can see on my 
email client (Thunderbird) and in the version of your post on the PBS 
list archive.

The likely reason for this difference is that both these email clients 
understand Unicode and whatever you're using to read the emails (iPad 
Mail (18G82)) does not.

Traditionally characters that are not understood are replaced with a 
question mark. Wow you must have put a non-breaking space after the word 
"late".

Much as I would defend ASCII to the hilt (as inches, feet and yards), 
the time has come to use a Unicode mail program. Or at least configure 
your mail program to understand it.

This cuts the other way, people sprinkle matching quotes and other fancy 
glyphs in their posts - often there is software that does the job - and 
there are whole email domains that will reject such emails.



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David Pilling
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