At 01:32 AM 9/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
I noticed that Quercusrobur was writing articles with
lots of boxes in them,
and changed them to apostrophes. So I wrote him a note on his talk page
including a row of box characters (which I generated with "160 128 do i emit
loop"; I have no way to type them). I just checked the page and all the
boxes
have been turned into question marks! So I have three
questions:
1. How do people write articles with boxes?
2. The people who write articles with boxes don't see them as boxes. They
see
them as apostrophes, dashes, ellipses, etc. How do we
explain to them how to
avoid writing boxes?
3. What changed the boxes to question marks?
The other day I tried out Jaguar (Apple's new 1 gigabyte operating system)
and suddenly the [[China/temp]] page blossumed with all sorts of neat
Chinese characters. I think if your browser doesn't recognise a character
it may render it as a box or question mark.
Fred