> But some people like them. I like "smart" quotes when I ask for them; I don't like them when I key in something else and don't get what I keyed in.
>Microsoft will outwit you. I once sent a co-worker a JCL excerpt with: > "...BLKSIZE=6144,..." >He wrote back, "What's this 'BLKSIZEa44'?" If there's one thing worse than the QP doll it's interpreting the text as QP when the header says otherwise. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 3:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Breaking text file at position 72? On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:05:07 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >You can readily disable smart quotes. > But some people like them. Microsoft will outwit you. I once sent a co-worker a JCL excerpt with: "...BLKSIZE=6144,..." He wrote back, "What's this 'BLKSIZEa44'?" There was *no* quoted-printable header. But Exchange was configured to use Word as a viewer. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
