Hi,

 I have experienced this before. Microsoft Word makes readily available a
really nice looking curly apostrophie. It happens to reside in the upper
128 bits of ACSII however and gets lost or simply does not get displayed
on some systems. In our case this apostrophie has been used in English
language text. We run a small perl script to check for upper 128 bit
characters before we post anything to our list.

Regards,

David Mayerlen

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Ben Parker wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:42:08 +0000, Deborah Cresswell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> >Is this a listserv problem?  Has anyone else experinced this, if so was
> >there a solution.
>
> It is not a LISTSERV problem.  The successful rendering of special characters,
> accent marks, etc. for foreign languages depends first on the correct settings
> for the writer's email program and secondly on similar (but not identical)
> correct settings in the receiver's email program (which is usually different).
> There is no universally accepted answer but MIME-Quoted-Printable character
> encoding seems to be more frequently successful than 8-bit character encoding.
> Your message was created using 8-bit encoding and your mail system converted
> your document after it left your computer but before passing it on the internet
> so this conversion probably 'ate' your missing character.
>
> LISTSERV can pass either form correctly and unchanged but what other compnents
> in the mail system do to alter the message between sending and receipt also
> needs to be considered.  Also there is a difference between the ' (0x27) and
> the ` (0x60) characters.
>