[lit-ideas] Re: Peculiar formatting

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:26:26 EST

I'm subscribed to a bunch of listserves, as I assume everyone here  is.  On 
some of the sending "plain text" results in postings with odd  characters and 
"rich text" appears fine; on others it is the opposite.  I  can never remember 
which listserves function in which ways, so I'm perpetually  annoying someone. 
 No one can explain to me why this phenomenon occurs so I  simply hit "send" 
and hope if it's worth reading it will be readable and  read.  Cyberspace.
 
Julie Krueger

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> I think you're trying to send  posts in HTML instead of plain text, and
> that the server is set to send  plain text only. So umlauts don't come
> through, and the =3D20  end-of-line marker does. (Michael Chase's posts
> have the same  problem.)
>
> This is an experiment using rich text to format the  post. My mail
> program won't let me use HTML. (It is Apple's Mail  program, latest
> version.) It's not a matter of the Mac, because my last  post came
> through clean.
>
> So freelists will accept only  basic ascii, and apparently any attempt
> to go beyond ascii kicks in  other formatting horrors. So it has to be
> Hoelderin and  kuessen.
>

Thanks, Harold, for your 'trouble-shooting'.  I'll  try to keep to =20
'plain vanilla' ascii  (I'm also using Apple's Mail  program, version=20
1.3.2).  I've got it set to 'plain text' as my  preference.  (Yes Judy,=20=

I did originally have an umlaut in my  'Hoelderlin'.)

Let's see what happens =85.

Chris Bruce
Kiel,  Germany
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