Peter,
Here is my assessment. The punctuation problem likely exists because everybody
is not using the same character set.
Character sets are like super decoder rings. When your ring is the same as mine
everything you encode with yours will be decoded properly by mine. However, if
our rings are slightly different the message I decode may not exactly match
your original message.
We have slightly different rings. The alphabetic and numeric characters match
OK but your apostrophe character decodes to the character b on my ring.
And, there are three rings involved: yours, mine, and Mark's.
This problem is avoided if everyone used a Universal Character Set, however,
this would put additional demands on the server.
Here is more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
Al Malin
On Dec 12, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Peter & Veronica wrote:
> Again, resending as I donbt think it got through first time:
>
> Gbday again
> Ibve been reading the wisdom on chrome plated suspension parts. The general
> consensus is b donbtb . Trouble is, I have some chrome plated steering
> arms and drag links that I would like to use (they were on some sort of
> display set up) Apparently the problem is b hydrogen embrittlementb caused
> by the plating process. Question: does the problem remain if the chrome is
> removed either mechanically or chemically?
> Cheers
> Peter Linn
> Brisbane Oz
> PS If all the punctuation in the above has been converted to nonsense, I
> apologise. Mark b whatbs the solution?
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