Mistakes in punctuation

Jane McGary via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sun, 17 Oct 2021 12:01:06 PDT
One source of anomalies like this is that keyboards designed for one 
roman-alphabet language may assign the symbol keys differently. If you 
ever tried to find the apostrophe (open single quote) while typing on a 
Spanish keyboard, you'll know what I mean. And as for being somewhere 
where you don't speak the local language, and trying to ask where the @ 
is ... ! You can switch assigned languages in some apps but not others. 
I also use Thunderbird for my email, but I don't know how to insert 
characters with acute, grave, or umlaut, much less the Slavic 
diacritics, except by typing the words into Word and copying and pasting 
into the email.

This kind of thing can still be tedious, but it's a lot better than when 
we had to insert special characters in hex code, or when we had to order 
custom-made "golf balls" for our IBM Selectrics.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

On 10/17/2021 6:46 AM, David Pilling via pbs wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
_______________________________________________
pbs mailing list
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>


More information about the pbs mailing list