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Subject:Re: Accidental à in html ... how? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:28:03 -0800
That's way out of date. Note that in the article you link to it says
if the fix doesn't work for you, "it's time to upgrade to Word 2004."
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> As I said, Mac uses à in the place of the unicode Â. Word can fix this in
> part because it uses an internal Unicode charset.
>
> To reproduce the error, open a file in Mac that is saved in Word or anything
> not Mac and that has  saved in Unicode.
>
> Just look at the charset tables. It ain't hard to see where the character
> confusion comes from.
>
> Here is one fix for the character confusion and some explanation about what
> is happening.
>http://word.mvps.org/mac/unicode.html
>
> The best option seems to be to not use Mac.
>
> Another option may be to change the font to a Unicode font.
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