In article <96e6ff5b51....@nails.ukonline.co.uk>,
Jim Nagel <nets...@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
> what does Pluto do with French characters such as é and É and ç?
> (characters 233, 201, 231 respectively = &E9, &C9, &E7)
Displays them correctly if set to 8-bit, but doesn't display these other
non-ASCII characters which, like the pound sign, should not be used in
e-mails for fear of upsetting elderly gentlemen like me with a tendency to
pedantry, or confusing others.
You'll be using "smart" quotes next!
I use a system font to display in Pluto, as is my right.
^^^^^^
It does not have 'bullet points'. If I did use a proportional font, I
would lose all the ASCII artwork and any emphasis or pointing using the '^'
character would be misaligned. But there is no guarantee it would have
'bullet points' in the same place yours does, or even at all.
'Ah', I hear you cry, 'but the system font is so awful to look at!'.
Not if you use a variant such as is available from:
http://irene.williams.free.fr/software/
- second item.
So you can't blame Pluto, even if you were pre-disposed to do so.
Of course, it's much more complicated than I've outlined, but to be sure,
only use ASCII plain text, or, if you need to, set to eight bit and add in
the standard accented characters. But go further than that and you will
lose some people who will see strange characters amongst your text.
I wish Help file writers would realise this! I once wrote a little program
to strip these rogue characters from otherwise plain text Help files. I
would then resave the files to avoid the problem next time!
John
