Re: Stray Question Marks (was: Names of a few Celtic Deities)

Thanks, Richard!
Indeed I found a CHARACTER ENCODING button under VIEW, switched from
Unicode to Western (ISO-8859-1), and behold, properly accented text
with no ??. Something in the system seems to have a mind of its own
and switches back to Unicode, but I can change it when I need it.
Dan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
> wrote:
> > Sergei's posting doesn't quite solve another problem I've

been

> > having: Wh?t are all these q?estion marks that have been infesting
> > Cyb?list in the last few weeks? From the Greek quotation I see

they

> > replace some accented vowels but not all. Can someone explain

just how

> > to read them -- or better yet, how to use a better system?
>
> Check the encoding with which you're viewing the web page. It

should

> be Latin-1 (or ISO-8859-1, or Western European) or similar. The
> encoding is not specified in the web page from Yahoo (tsk! tsk!),

and

> your browser seems to have decided that UTF-8 (a.k.a. Unicode) is

the

> percentage choice. However, the coding for accented vowels in
> Latin-1 is a misplaced byte in UTF-8, so a question mark is

displayed.

>
> If one uses anything but Latin-1 (which allows plain ASCII) in a
> posting, one should warn readers. Note also that UTF-8 characters
> sent from the Yahoo web page (e.g. by 'reply' or 'post') stand a
> better than 6% chance of being corrupted when Yahoo convert
> Windows-1252 'smart quotes' to their Latin-1 approximations.
>
> Richard.