Subject: Re: funny characters, it worked

From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 08:35:57 -0500

This worked!  Thank you very much everyone who tried to help.
The solution is to deselect smart quoted in the preferences selection 
under the tools menu.

Once again thank you very much!
Beth
 On Wed, 1 May 1996, Ian Russell Ollmann wrote:

> Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 23:57:42 +0000
> From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
> To: Elizabeth Peterson <bethp@fsgi01>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Re: funny characters
> 
> 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 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]
> 
> In this particular case, the smart quotes in Word do not translate to the regular quotes 
> when you copy into pine, because they are not regular ASCII characters. If you turn the 
> smart quotes off in the Word preferences window, the problem should go away. (In Word 
> 5.1a, the preferences may be reached from the Tools pulldown. Select the "General" icon 
> on the left and uncheck "Smart Quotes") Another solution is to simply write your 
> document in Simpletext or some other not-so-full featured word processing program which 
> doesn't support smart quotes. In some ways Simpletext is a joy to use. For example it 
> takes one second to come up on my 7500. Word takes much longer. You can do your spell 
> checking in pine. It is more efficient than Word IMHO.  
> 
>                                       Ian Ollmann
>