Re: Accidental à in html ... how?

[Sean Brierley <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com>]

We can let this go. I was just looking for some quick insight.


   1. Mac OSX El Capitan or Mavericks.
   2. Colleague copies text in Word.
   3. Colleague pastes text into body section of a text file with required
   HTML sections already there (TextWrangler).
   4. Colleague adds HTML tags in the text file.
   5. Colleague renames the .txt to .htm.
   6. See à instead of Â.


I appreciate that you think it a mistake, but I don't care about that. I
was just looking to figure out how  Ã ended up in there.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> Can you describe the workflow in detail?
>
> 1. Your colleague opens an .htm? .txt? file <produced by what
> application?> in TextWrangler
> 2. copies  from Word for Mac version ???? and pastes it into
> TextWranger [THIS IS A MISTAKE]
> 3. saves the TextWrangler file ... as .txt? as .htm?
> 4. emails? the file to you
> 5. in Windows 7? Vista? 3.1? you open the file in notepad? Word?
> Emacs? Notepad++? and see à instead of Â
>
> If you send the file back to your colleague, do they see  instead of Ã
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > Your colleague is pasting  characters into the HTML, but when you
> > look at the HTML in a text editor, you see à characters?
> >
> > Or are you editing the HTML in Word and seeing it there? You haven't
> > answered any questions about what's actually in the HTML.
> >
>
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