On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:33:29AM +0000, DLSauers wrote: > Annoying characters in posts: > > > > Is there some font setting or something that can remove these annoying > glyhps or what ever they are...
Short answer: it's an encoding problem. Some doofus is probably pasting so-called "Smart Quotes" from Microsoft Word into their post, and their news reader program (or Google Groups *spit*) is not adjusting the encoding as it should. Read this article for more details: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The article is aimed at programmers, but doesn't assume any programming knowledge, and everyone should read it. > I've tried setting all kinds of fonts etc.. and they still appear... I > just want plain text and the correct ' and " that should be there. It's nothing to do with the font, and there's no such thing as "plain text". You *might* be able to fix the problem by using the menu command: View > Body Pane > Set character encoding... but you need to know what the encoding *actually* is, as opposed to what the post claims it to be. Or be lucky in your guess :) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
