tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 03 05:28:48 1997
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Setting up your email software
- From: "Jarno Peschier" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Setting up your email software
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:31:14 +0100
- Comments: Authenticated sender is <[email protected]>
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Computer Science
- Priority: normal
On 3 Oct 97 at 1:20, Qov wrote:
> At 08:20 97-10-02 -0700, you wrote:
> }On 30 Sep 97 at 8:15, Brenda weemes wrote:
> }
> }> lojmIt yipo sma HD (Open the Door) and yI�el (come In).
> }> Kha�mah gegh Neng Do �a� ! (My heart and Soul is yours )
> }
> }Mmm, I don't know what changes you made to your system
> }configuration, but now every ' character comes out as the ligature
> }of A and E together here. Very difficult to read, actually.
>
> It came out fine on my system. The problem was 'smart quotes.' I
> add to my list of recommendations to tlhIngan Hol optimize your
> system.
>
> 1. Use a non-proportional, serif font e.g. Courier
Always a good idea even though I just use proportional Times Roman
in email myself, and like it (Courier is just a press of F12 away in
Pegasus Mail anyway ;-)).
> 2. Turn off smart quotes, auto capitalization and auto spelling
> correctors
Sounds great too, but I really can't see what this has got to do with
' turning into AE (as one character). This seems like a characterset
(not font) or codepage problem. By the way, I see that somewhere
along the way the character I talked about got translated into a pipe
(or | symbol).
> 3. In MS Word 7 turn off the feature that underlines
> suspected spelling errors, because it will get confused when the
> memory buffer fills up from too many Qaghqoqmey.
I don't get this: why would *anyone* write their email with MS Word
7? Sounds like the prelude to trouble...
Qapla'
peSHIr
Jarno Peschier, computer science student, Utrecht University
mailto:[email protected] http://jarno.home.ml.org/
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