[Ads-l] testing intelligent quotes

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Joel (and list members): Below are the first seven lines of Joel's
message as they were received by me. I am using the gmail website to
read email from a gmail account. The text below looks the same with
the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome on Windows 8.1.

Each line of Joel's message has an =20 appended for an unknown (to me)
reason. The intelligent quotes are also mangled.

[Begin excerpt]
=93abc=94 =91def=92

In my text the above appear as intelligent=20
quotation marks before this message is=20
sent.  Let's see what they appear as to various=20
members' email applications.  One answer from=20
each of three factions should be sufficient --=20
either as intelligent quotes (different forms for=20
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      testing intelligent quotes
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> =93abc=94 =91def=92
>
> In my text the above appear as intelligent=20
> quotation marks before this message is=20
> sent.  Let's see what they appear as to various=20
> members' email applications.  One answer from=20
> each of three factions should be sufficient --=20
> either as intelligent quotes (different forms for=20
> opening and closing), unintelligent quotes (same=20
> form for opening and closing), or gibberish=20
> (strings of three characters, such as =E2=80=99 for a single quote or=
>  apostrophe).
>
> If for some email applications they appear as=20
> quotation marks (whether intelligent or=20
> unintelligent), then the fault lies in your email application, dear Brutus.
>
> Joel=20
>
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