One source of anomalies like this is that keyboards designed for one roman-alphabet language may assign the symbol keys differently. If you ever tried to find the apostrophe (open single quote) while typing on a Spanish keyboard, you'll know what I mean. And as for being somewhere where you don't speak the local language, and trying to ask where the @ is ... ! You can switch assigned languages in some apps but not others. I also use Thunderbird for my email, but I don't know how to insert characters with acute, grave, or umlaut, much less the Slavic diacritics, except by typing the words into Word and copying and pasting into the email. This kind of thing can still be tedious, but it's a lot better than when we had to insert special characters in hex code, or when we had to order custom-made "golf balls" for our IBM Selectrics. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA On 10/17/2021 6:46 AM, David Pilling via pbs wrote: > Hi Uli, > > There are no problems in the versions of your post that I can see on > my email client (Thunderbird) and in the version of your post on the > PBS list archive. > > The likely reason for this difference is that both these email clients > understand Unicode and whatever you're using to read the emails (iPad > Mail (18G82)) does not. > > Traditionally characters that are not understood are replaced with a > question mark. Wow you must have put a non-breaking space after the > word "late". > > Much as I would defend ASCII to the hilt (as inches, feet and yards), > the time has come to use a Unicode mail program. Or at least configure > your mail program to understand it. > > This cuts the other way, people sprinkle matching quotes and other > fancy glyphs in their posts - often there is software that does the > job - and there are whole email domains that will reject such emails. > > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>