This article explains why your computer might substitute one character for another in an e-mail message. This is a common question in Hawaii and at my university, as we have many computer users who speak English as a second language.
It all revolves around ASCII, “quoted printable”, and Unicode.
I found this link in the New York Times.
This is a good time to mention that some news sites, like the New York times and CNN, are difficult targets for hyperlinks. The Times shifts many news articles to a paid archive after a few days, while CNN deletes some articles from its public web site after a few weeks. There are ways to maintain links by adding additional arguments to the URL.
Sometimes, Google’s cache can be used to find old news articles.
So for New York Times and CNN articles, I usually save the print-friendlty version of the article as a PDF. Mac users can use the Print, Save as PDF dialog to do a PDF capture. Windows users can install freeware like CutePDF.
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