Message from Stan Ryckman [15:32 99-02-18 ]: >>It baffles me. The apostrophe (') is a perfectly normal character >>and as such should never be an object of any translations, "quoting" >>or whatever... it should simply pass through just like a dot (.), >>a dash (-) or an apersand (&). > >I wonder... I've sometimes received email (which I believe to have >been prepared with a word processor rather than a text editor) >where some 8-bit character appears where an apostrophe would have >been expected. My guess is that in this case an 8-bit character >was used in the "French" message text. > >I couldn't locate one right now, so I'm not sure what the 8-bit >value used was. Yes, that's very probable. Some national editors/word processors have own ideas e.g. on what a quotation mark (") is... mjw