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Yup. I cannot reproduce the problem, either. So, for that reason, I
thought, perhaps, my colleague was doing something different than what he
was telling me. And, for that reason, I asked on here, thinking if there
were an obvious something, I would find out. It appears the cause is not
obvious.
Don't worry about it any more.
Cheers,
Sean
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:
> I copied a  in Word for Mac, pasted it in TextWrangler, saved it,
> emailed it to a Windows 7 box, and it appears as  in Windows.
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Sean Brierley
> <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com> wrote:
> > 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 à ended up in there.
> >
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