Paul,  I notice that some of my punctuation such a quotation marks,
are displayed as question marks when you repost to the group.  Is
this because of the font I am using?  Which font do you recommend for
the news letter?  Jerry

I use Western ISO-9959-1. It may not be the font. Are you sending
HTML? If so don't do that. Send everything plain text.
--  Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Normally for e-mail I compose in the e-mail program.  Never a
problem.  In the last case, I composed in my word processor and then
cut and pasted into the email text window.   I wonder why that would
be a problem.  Perhaps someone can explain.   Jerry

Jerry,

The problem probably isn't in the font you're using per se in this case;
it's in using a Windows application to create the text.  (Those of you
who love to hate Microsoft have yet another reason!)  Microsoft uses
their own character code (Windows-1252) which assigns a different
hexidecimal code to the apostrophe in particular (and maybe other
symbols as well) than the Western ISO-9959-1 does.

BTW, Paul, I think Western ISO-9959-1 isn't really a font at all.  I
think it just tells your program which character to display from the
font being used.

Bill Garrett

Thanks Bill. We also get this stuff from people not using Windows.
In Jerry's case he is using a Mac. These proprietary O.S. guys are
always trying to set their own "standards" :)

I use the default Thunderbird email program set up
and that is what they list under "Character Encoding"

Here is the Thunderbird default font selected.
See the attachment.