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

Screen shot:

Jerry

You got me.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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