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what are these black diamonds with question marks? How do I get rid of them?
Sample: Dear Fellow MS�ers � It is with a heavy heart that I relay the passing of Linda Wejcman, former State Representative from our area. I�ll share information about services when I know more. Linda had a good, compassionate heart and was a Representative who consistently �fought the good fight.� She will be missed. thank you for your help! |
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That looks like an incompatible font was used or a character set is missing.
It looks like smartquotes (curly quotation marks) are being substituted by the � characters. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Ralph" wrote in message ... what are these black diamonds with question marks? How do I get rid of them? Sample: Dear Fellow MS�ers � It is with a heavy heart that I relay the passing of Linda Wejcman, former State Representative from our area. I�ll share information about services when I know more. Linda had a good, compassionate heart and was a Representative who consistently �fought the good fight.� She will be missed. thank you for your help! |
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This (�) is the character a browser (other programs could use it too)
displays when its font does not have the requested character. If you set your browser encoding to Western (Windows-1252), you should see the quotes. Note that if you do this, you won't see the many language and technical characters that the universal character set (Unicode) can display (with, for example, the UTF-8 encoding). Why did this happen? The original document must have been created in Word, or another Office product. Windows (well, Word) uses its own special version of ASCII. Years ago, before Unicode, MS wanted to give its users an easy way to get typographical quotes, so it used positions that in the standard ASCII were were reserved for controls. Many software and operating system vendors also use reserved area positions. The Unicode developers, who were funded by a consortium of software and operating system vendors (among them MS, Adobe, and Apple), settled on using the standard ASCII as the base for Unicode. Pam Ralph wrote: what are these black diamonds with question marks? How do I get rid of them? Sample: Dear Fellow MS�ers � It is with a heavy heart that I relay the passing of Linda Wejcman, former State Representative from our area. I�ll share information about services when I know more. Linda had a good, compassionate heart and was a Representative who consistently �fought the good fight.� She will be missed. thank you for your help! -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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