At 12:46:45 PM on Friday, April 8, 2011, rob13567 wrote:

> Interesting. I create my group messages working through
> the online interface of the forum. My last several
> postings have been copied and pasted from Word 2007, and I
> paste them using the Yahoo "Rich-Text Editor" option.

That's probably the source of the problem: I forget the
details, but in another Yahoo Group we discovered that
Yahoo's handling of character encodings leaves much to be
desired, and it wouldn't surprise me if their RT editor had
some problems as well.

> Messages from roughly December to February were more
> likely copied and pasted from my Linux machine, where I
> used another word processor (Star Office?) to create the
> messages.

I don't know about other distros, but Ubuntu uses
OpenOffice.org (though it's switching to LibreOffice with
the next release).

Brian