ASCII à February 26, 2010, 10:43:31 pm Yahoo Message Number: 110505What the heck is going on with all those à (Atilde) symbols floating all throughout the recent postings. It's very irritating while you are trying to read the text of a message!Any way to prevent this from happening? ? ? ? Andy?Steve S. Lazy Bones & Jiggs
Re: ASCII à Reply #1 – February 27, 2010, 12:04:57 am Yahoo Message Number: 110509"What the heck is going on with all those à (Atilde) symbols floating all throughout the recent postings. It's very irritating while you are trying to read the text of a message!" No kidding! I've been noticing those and other oddball characters myself lately, but I don't know what the cause is. Some Yahoo glitch...?Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels/
Re: ASCII Ã Reply #2 – February 27, 2010, 11:42:38 am Yahoo Message Number: 110527It's not just here. I read the UK Daily Telegraph, BBC news and the Seattle Times on line and they all suffer from weird symbols. In some cases it's the A-tilde, others are the sign for the Euro with an umlaut, the Japanese Yen sign and sometimes a string of four or five oddball ones. They seem to be substitutes for quote marks and other punctuation marks I understand, from my computer guru son, that certain ASCII character definitions are used for different characters in different word processor software programs. When text is displayed in a system other than the one the original document was written in, a different character is inserted. In this group, if you write in Yahoo, it should display what you wrote. If you composed in MS Works, Word or one of the free clone programs and then cut & paste into the message pane, it might go awry.
Re: ASCII � Reply #3 – February 27, 2010, 11:57:30 am Yahoo Message Number: 110528"Frank" wrote: In this group, if you write in Yahoo, it should display what you wrote. If you composed in MS Works, Word or one of the free clone programs and then cut & paste into the message pane, it might go awry. --- I sometimes have to "adjust" lines of text in message pane, but if I compose a message in Word and c&p, the ultimate appearance in the board's message pane is indeed a crapshoot; a few people have asked why something I posted was so bizarrely formatted! I blame it all on Word, the buggiest word processing software on the planet; that's my story, and I'm sticking to it! ;-)Joan
Re: ASCII � Reply #4 – February 27, 2010, 01:09:40 pm Yahoo Message Number: 110534Quote"...if I compose a message in Word and c&p, the ultimate appearance in the board's message pane is indeed a crapshootJoan I should have indicated in my original post that these annoying 'symbols' are random. No need to blame MS Word, you can create any ASCII symbol right at your keyboard. With your Number Lock enabled, hold down the Alt key and type in 0159 or 0162 or 0195 or 0131. See what I mean, you can do it all...Ÿ, ¢, Ã, ƒ, etc.Steve S. Lazy Bones & Jiggs ®
Re: ASCII à Reply #5 – February 27, 2010, 06:09:11 pm Yahoo Message Number: 110552"What the heck is going on with all those à (Atilde) symbols floating all throughout the recent postings."It has to do with character encoding settings. I asked the same question several months ago and got some answers but I can't find the posts. Paul Smith, didn't you offer up an explanation? I think I called them "rogue A's". I've seen them on a couple of other Yahoo group sites.Chris
Re: ASCII Ã Reply #6 – February 28, 2010, 09:38:16 am Yahoo Message Number: 110575It may also be a function of your browser, too. I noticed today that the translation of the topic title that appears at the very top of the browser window had a couple of extra characters that are not in the meesage header. One of them even looks Arabic!!
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