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. -------------------------------------------------------
I think I figured it out. My Thunderbird is allowing people to
use other fonts. I turned that off so it looks like that will
fix it.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Maybe Jerry can send you a test document to see if this solves the
problem. I think you'll find it doesn't.
ISO 9959-1 is pretty much like ASCII code. All it does is tell your
program which character to display from the font set you're using or
what action to perform if it's not a printable character code. ISO
9959-1 assigns the hexidecimal number 27 (two seven, not twenty-
seven)
to the apostrophe and 3F to the question mark. I expect Windows-1252
assigns 3F to the apostrophe instead since Jerry's message showed a
question mark everywhere an apostrophe should have been.
Regards,
Bill
Well lets try this:
Our little discussion about ?Safety? in so far as Tail Draggers
are concerned triggered a response in me that has been simmering
for a long while. I will confine my remarks to aviation but they
apply to all endeavors in life. When I was a boy my father
would take me to the air port to watch the Cubs, Taylorcrafts and
other similar aircraft flying (in the pattern sort of) for the
joy of flying. There was no control tower and not a single
aircraft had a radio. Right over the air port, some
adventuresome pilots, would toss in an occasional loop.
Learning how to handle your tail dragger was a rite of passage
into an exclusive club. If there were any nose wheels around, I
did not see them. Perhaps they were cowering behind the hanger
doors where they belonged.
My father was not a successful man and as his son I did not find
much to be proud of even though I desperately wanted to. Then
one day, he and a buddy, managed to buy a war surplus Taylorcraft
and he learned to fly it. He did get good at it, I?d say, since
he eventually thought nothing of plopping down into any farmers
field or meadow that had enough clear space. Think of how much
skill that takes. Did it take courage? I don?t know. But
imagine doing that...
For sure, for my father the scales had tilted dramatically away
from safety and in favor of adventure. He developed a spring in
his step and a glint in his eye and, in the process, became my hero.
If we conducted ourselves that way today, the farmer would sue
us, the sheriff would cite us and the insurance company would
drop us faster than you can spell the word ?fun?. Bureaucrats
(FAA, Insurance companies) hate adventure and they love to dredge
up safety anytime someone wants to have fun. They limit our
activities and then charge us for the privilege. The thing
about adventure is that it is always a little bit dangerous
sometimes very dangerous. Do we really want to give that up?
Otherwise ?adventure? would be as boring as, well, a nose dragger.
I learned to fly (Luscomb) off a dirt strip in the Mojave and my
80 year old instructor spent a lot of time on cross wind
landings in the strong desert winds. In fact he would sometimes
make me use the runway that the winds did not favor. I learned
to land on one main and drive down the runway on that one wheel
steering with the rudder. We practiced stalls and spins. At
altitude he had me practice skidding as in a crappy approach and
force the issue until the plane would suddenly snap onto her
back. He never taught me how to navigate or to talk on the
radio. If I wanted to learn those things, there were books
available. He wanted to teach me how to fly. Flying is
handling an airplane as if you are one with it. Anything less is
just driving.
Think of all the gains in private aviation since the days of the
Barn Stormers. I would trade all of them to live in that era- to
fly by the seat of my pants, needing no ones permission, and get
out of my airplane with the swagger that befits a real man. Jerry
That seems to have worked. Jerry
Very strange. Now the problem has one again raised its ugly head. I
will not cut and paste from the word processor to email again or at
least not until the problem is solved. Jerry
It still looks OK to me.
Paul Lamar
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