Andrew, Steve: Why don't you look at the message as posted on Rootsweb? These character encoding issues are very difficult to resolve. I have not had any issues viewing Carol's messages, but I see them in the ones you have quoted. Keith ------ Original Message ------ Received: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:01:28 PM EST From: Andrew Rodger <rodgera@audioio.com> To: shayes@dunelm.org.uk, south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] EASTERN PROVINCE HERALD 08.12.1944 On 27 Dec 2011, at 6:53 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: > On 24 Dec 2011 at 13:08, Carol Beneke wrote: > >> EASTERN PROVINCE HERALD >> >> Port Elizabeth, Friday, December 8, 1944 >> >> Births >> >> ARCHER – To Mr and Mrs E.C. ARCHER of Commadagga Station, a >> Daughter, on the >> 6th December, at the Provincial Hospital. >> >> GOODCHILD – To Petty Officer (S.A.N.F.) and Mrs G. GOODCHILD nee >> (Mary >> GRONAU), a Daughter, on December 7th, 1944, at Provincial Hospital. > > These look useful, but I'm wondering what character set you are > using, and > what is represented by the "–" (a with a kappie, Euro, Quotation > mark). This did not happen on my copy. I take it the quotation-mark is an opening Smart Quote -- it's hard to see in the e-mail. On my Mac that would be typed as Option i, a, Option-Shift 2, Option- Shift [. (The first stroke does nothing on the screen, until you type the second, when the circumflex appears with the a.) What it would take in the Wintel world I don't know, but I have noted that all sorts of things happen in cross-platform e-mails (and even in their Word attachments). Very often I also get strange insertions that nobody could have typed, e.g. the word "not could appear in the e-mail as: no ! (that is: n, o, new line [new line is done with shift-return], space, !). Maybe this is the same sort of phenomenon. But my example could also just be noise on the line -- which used to happen with dial-up and still does with telephone-line ADSL. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message