Post originally by Mikey Boy at 2003-08-05 06:16:22
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Sérgio Mascarenhas wrote:
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"this is not your fault at all but purely the result of an infestation of vile little gremlins."

I don't get this. In my computer it apears has i wrote it. I don't consider myself a master English writer but you seem to be pointing to problems with signs, not with the language. Can you present an example?
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The problem seems to be that you're including non-ascii characters in your document - things like "open-quote" and "close-quote" characters, instead of the standard ascii quote characters that serve for both open- and close-quotes. These are being converted to '?' characters somewhere along the way.

Another common instance of this is using a long "dash" character instead of an ascii hyphen. This also shows up as a '?' character on the final web page.

This is probably being done automatically by the word-processing software you're using. MS Word does it automatically, for example. I believe you can tell it not to do this, but someone else will have to explain how.

Hope that helps,

Mike