Re: Ron - - signature with funny characters

January 7, 2008

Ron and -

Maybe it's other computers. It seems that when some people write and my

message follows, there are no characters and when some people write there

are the symbols. Doesn't make sense to me except with what wrote

about crossing from system to system. Things that make you go...hmmmm

Sandie - not adding the signature line this time!

-- Re: signature with funny characters

I think it has something to do with copy/paste - copying the signature

from one system (w/in Juno) and pasting it into another system (w/in

Yahoo) the two providers might be adding some HTML coding on the back

end in order to read it... OR better yet, if it's a signature that

comes w/ Juno and is added automatically than that coding happens

automatically as it comes from one email provider to another email

provider... purely guessing here... but if you try typing your response

from the web board of this message board, and copy/pasting the

signature from Word into your post, I bet it won't happen... But that's

too much work so we can deal w/ funny characters and instead just think

it's a secret code of sorts.

Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

January 7, 2008

I asked two of my sons who work in the computer field about the funny

characters. Here are their answers:

JW said:Her signature probably contains characters that are not part

of the

usual ISO Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1) character set and the website is setup

to

only display that character set or something like that. You could

sometimes get something like that by copy and pasting from Microsoft

Word into a website form.

NT said: likely has to do with character encoding -- there are some

characters that aren't getting interpreted correctly so you see " alien

characters "

I am not sure this helps. Sounds like more alien talk to me

Lorraine

> Hi -

>

> I have an area on the heading of my reply email where I can " manage "

> signatures. Once added in that area I click on it and send my " default "

> signature. I deleted the signature and re-added it since all the Crop

> Circles showed up. I haven't seen it in there on replies since I

changed it

> all. Do you still see it?

>

> It makes perfect sense what you wrote in your speculation. If that is or

> isn't what is happening it still is a great way of explaining it

all. Thank

> you for trying to figure all this out.

>

> I know I have seen those types of characters on other emails before and

> wondered how they got there. Only on messages I receive from the

caregivers

> group, not on anything else personally though.

>

> We can definitely use it as a secret code. Anyone cracking the code wins

> the prize. Not sure what that prize is though...but one will win.

>

> Hugs from Iowa-

>

> Sandie

>

> ï»¿ ï»¿

> Des Moines, IA

> dad, Merle, passed away from LBD 9-20-02, age 65

> mum, Jo, (MIL) passed away from LBD 4-29-07, age 78

>

> -- Re: signature with funny characters

>

> I think it has something to do with copy/paste - copying the signature

> from one system (w/in Juno) and pasting it into another system (w/in

> Yahoo) the two providers might be adding some HTML coding on the back

> end in order to read it... OR better yet, if it's a signature that

> comes w/ Juno and is added automatically than that coding happens

> automatically as it comes from one email provider to another email

> provider... purely guessing here... but if you try typing your response

> from the web board of this message board, and copy/pasting the

> signature from Word into your post, I bet it won't happen... But that's

> too much work so we can deal w/ funny characters and instead just think

> it's a secret code of sorts.

>

> Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

>

January 8, 2008

Lorraine,

Isn't it amazing how our little ones who had the hardest time understanding the

concept that their shoes and school bags couldn't be dropped and left inside the

doorway are now telling us things like " ISO Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1) character set " ?

lol

Courage

Re: signature with funny characters