Curly quotes [was: "Not All Men"]

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jun 6 03:30:51 UTC 2014


And I don't mean one of the Three Stooges.

At 6/5/2014 10:37 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>This is the only list that I have this problem with. BB

I have it with another list.

Joel


>On Jun 5, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
>
> > I too get "curly quotes and em-dashes and the like" mangled -- but it
> > is my email client's (Eudora's) failure to understand them.  (If one
> > reads Ann's message in the archives, it's fine.)
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 6/5/2014 12:29 AM, Ann Burlingham wrote:
> >
> >> ah, thanks! it's probably some setting at my end, then.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Jesse Sheidlower
> <jester at panix.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> >>> -----------------------
> >>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >>> Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
> >>> Subject:      Re: "Not All Men"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Only one copy made it to the list, and it was in fine condition. Not
> >>> sure why you're getting a second version, or why it's not correctly
> >>> translating curly quotes and em-dashes and the like.
>
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