[AT] Some ads from the 7/31 Lancaster Farming

[Dean Vinson]

I've had this same thing occur when exchanging emails with someone who has a web-based email system like yahoo or juno.  If I write something with single or double quotation marks, and the other person replies and includes my original text, sometimes my quotation marks get turned into weird character strings like “B†we're seeing here.  Seems like somewhere in the process, one system or the other uses a different character set.

Dean Vinson
Dayton, Ohio
www.vinsonfarm.net


-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mike Sloane
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 6:27 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 7/31 Lancaster Farming

In this particular case, Charlie, that is the way they show up in the 
on-line ads. I use Firefox browser, and I checked to see if MS Internet 
Explorer shows up the same way - that used to be a common problem, but 
it isn't here, the odd characters still show up. So it isn't a problem 
at your end; Lancaster Farming is probably using some kind of antique 
application to either scan the printed ads or upload them to the server.

Mike

On 7/31/2010 7:39 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me why I am getting these characters in Mikes
> message: “B”
> behind 1937 JD unstyled. I'm assuming I don't have some character set.
> This message isn't the only time I see this. Just an example. With my
> luck they will show up as ordinary characters on everyone else's screen.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 6:35 PM
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: [AT] Some ads from the 7/31 Lancaster Farming
>
>> Some of the more interesting ads from the (free to subscribers) Mailbox
>> Markets section 7/31/10 weekly Lancaster (PA) Farming newspaper. [my
>> comments, if any, are in brackets] I think I missed last week's ads;
>> sorry about that - I think the heat got to me. :-(
>>
>> For Sale:
>>
>> 1937 JD unstyled “B” excellent cond. $4,500 obo, 1949 IH cub with
>> snow plow runs good $1,500 obo, JD 3 1/2hp hit & miss $1,500. Morris Co.
>> NJ 201-874-2327
>>
>> 1937 John Deere unstyled A runs good, new tires, $4,800. 1937 John Deere
>> unstyled B new tires, good paint $4,200. Yates Co. NY 315-536-0543
>>