> Frank Sheeran:
>
> > I get the digest of the group once or twice a day as traffic warrants,
> and
> > I read it on the Google gmail web page on Google Chrome as the browser.
> >
> > I notice certain posters, and I hate to single out anyone but for
> > instance  Nigel
> > Redmon, often become quite hard to read with all apostrophes turned to
> > question marks:
> >
> > > about ?what you can get away with?, not about precision. First, it?s
> > frequency
> >
> > Am I the only one with this problem, and is there a setting I should use
> to
> > take care of it?
>
> This would be a character encoding problem, and I don't know of any
> setting
> that you could use to take care of it. I don't see that problem, which is
> surprising, because I use a most ancient email client and plain text (not
> HTML) mode. In the particular example given here, Nigel's message appears
> to
> be using the UTF-8 encoding, allowing anything UTF-8 aware to render
> typographically correct quotation characters.
>
> But... I don't subscribe to the digest version of the list. I wonder if
> the
> digest version of the list simply munges together all the messages, with
> all
> their potentially disparate character encodings and declares it all to be
> something as basic as US-ASCII. That would certainly explain the symptoms
> here.
>
> I found this in the default mailman config - it might be the problem:

[language.master]
# Template for language definitions.  The section name must be [language.xx]
# where xx is the 2-character ISO code for the language.

# The English name for the language.
description: English (USA)
# And the default character set for the language.
charset: us-ascii
# Whether the language is enabled or not.
enabled: yes
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