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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.
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Sean Brierley
> <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com> wrote:
>> Oh, I just want to identify what causes that random interaction.
>>
>> I mean, I can resolve this (search and replace), but am stuck on the "why"
>> of it all.
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