Subject: funny characters

From: Elizabeth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 13:38:36 -0500

When a word document is attached, ^R, or cut and pasted into pine from a
Macintosh computer the message, when printed, will have funnly characters for
quotation marks and various other letters and symbols.  Is this something wrong
with Pine or is it with Microsoft  word?  If you could let me know what to do
It is greatly appreciated.  Please if could make the instructions easy, I am
new to 	these sort of things and if you could reply to [email-masked]

Beth

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From: Peter Svanberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:43:17 +0200 (MET DST)

> new to 	these sort of things and if you could reply to [email-masked]

Which program do you use when you paste? As some non-ASCII
characters - as "nice" quotation marks - are encoded
differently in a Macintosh and a Unix environment, the
communication program you paste into must compensate
for this difference ("convert"). If it don't, there
will be funny characters.

So look for "character encoding" or "...conversion" or
something like that in your communication program.

(NCSA Telnet 2.6 does handle this correctly, even without
any configuration.)

Peter Svanberg, Stockholm

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From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:04:00 -0500 (CDT)

The  document is pasted directly into pine.  On the Mac there is a 
way to connect to a Unix machine where pine is located.  Then I will 
write the document in Word cut it from the Word menu and then I go to 
paste it into Pine, there I use the paste command in the Mac menu.  Or 
if I am going to ftp or fetch it to Unix and then ^R it into the message I 
will still get the funny characters.  So then I guess my question is, 
is there a way to configure pine or Microsoft word to do the 
conversion or is there some other way I should go about doing these 
things?  I thank you for your help.
       
On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Peter Svanberg wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:43:17 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Peter
Svanberg <[email-masked]> > To: Elizabeth Peterson <bethp@fsgi01> >
Cc: [email-masked] > Subject: Re: funny characters > >
On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Elizabeth Peterson wrote: > > > When a word
document is attached, ^R, or cut and pasted into pine from a > >
Macintosh computer the message, when printed, will have funny
characters for > > quotation marks and various other letters and
symbols.  Is > > this something wrong > > with Pine or is it with
Microsoft word?  If you could let me know what to do > > It is greatly
appreciated.  Please if could make the instructions easy, I am > > new
to these sort of things and if you could reply to [email-masked] > >

Which program do you use when you paste? As some non-ASCII >
characters - as "nice" quotation marks - are encoded > differently in
a Macintosh and a Unix environment, the > communication program you
paste into must compensate > for this difference ("convert"). If it
don't, there > will be funny characters. > > So look for "character
encoding" or "...conversion" or > something like that in your
communication program. > > (NCSA Telnet 2.6 does handle this
correctly, even without > any configuration.) > > Peter Svanberg,
Stockholm

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From: Peter Svanberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:14:09 +0200 (MET DST)

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Beth Peterson wrote:

> way to connect to a Unix machine where pine is located.

Yes, this "way to connect" is the problem - it must convert
when you paste. Check if that is configurable.

> Or
> will still get the funny characters.

In this case you must convert the file with a program on
the Mac or on Unix before you can ^R it.

Peter