OT: Mystery characters

On 4/12/08 7:25 AM,"PJ" <pjmott@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Apr 11, 9:45�pm, "Laura M. Young" <bridgeplaye...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 4/11/08 8:45 PM,"PJ" <pjm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> I wish I knew how to fix whatever is causing the problem! But since it
>>> doesn't happen with everyone, I don't have a clue. Glad the *** helped
>>> anyway.
>> 
>> On my newsreader, your text is fine, but all the text that you QUOTE
has a
>> box with a question mark in it after every period. � Weird!
> 
> Now, I was just seeing that yesterday in someone else's post where
> they were quoting Vox. Vox's comments had the box and question mark.
> But that's the only time I've seen that and usually I have no problems
> with what *I* see.  My husband is a programmer and I asked him to try
> and figure out what was going on. No luck. He's mystified too.
> 
> PJ

What apparently happens is that your machine doesn't recognize some things
like the spaces at the end of other people's sentences so it replaces them
with something that shows to the rest of us as that question mark box.  I
haven't noticed if it does it all the time.  Or maybe it is our computers
that are doing something weird with your posts?  But then why would they
do
that ONLY with your posts and no one else's?

Maybe it is a PC vs Mac thing?  Vox and I are both on Macs, and Ruby is
some
of the time.  That would be a clue if Ruby has noticed whether all her
posts
get converted with that box or just those generated on her Mac.  If none
of
them do, then we're back to square one.