On 12/25/2013 11:06 PM, BAR wrote:
In article , says...

On 12/25/13, 9:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/25/13 9:07 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

...Sir Issac.

If you don?t follow Neil deGrasse Tyson, you might not know that 25
December is the birthday of a man who showed us all a way to know the
Cosmos . . .

...Sir Issac Newton, born 25 December 1642 in Lincolnshire, United
Kingdom.

Sir Issac?s list of accomplishments was long and impressive, and not the
least of which was his appointment as holder of the Lucasian Chair of
Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, the same chair until recent
years was held by Stephen Hawking. Newton was a liberal arts student and
received his bachelor?s and master?s degrees at Trinity College,
Cambridge.


Happy birthday Sir Issac.

Now, I have another "Mac" question.

I installed Thunderbird on the iMac and am using it for the first time
with this post.

When I first opened and read your post (above and which also originated
on a Mac) some of the characters did not display properly. For example,
anything with an apostrophe, like in the word "don't" displayed with
some weird characters in place of the apostrophe.

I checked the same post in Thunderbird on the Vista laptop and
everything displayed correctly.

When I went back and re-opened your post on the iMac, it changed for
some unknown reason and now displays correctly.

I've noticed this before when people send emails from iPhones. Quite
often there are weird characters in place of an apostrophe.

Why, Mr. Apple Genius?


Interesting. I sometimes get odd characters with messages posted from
smart phones, but not always.

Check the T?bird preferences under Display and see what the Character
Encodings are set to.

Fonts for: should be Western

I also have Font Control set to ?allow messages to use other fonts.

Under Character Encodings:

Both of mine are Western (ISO-8859-1).



Most likely an HTML issue.

http://www.html-apostrophe.com/


Good point. When I was using Windows Live Mail, I had email set to
html but had newsgroups set to plain text.

I'll have to check the settings in Thunderbird (if I can find them).