Re: Filter for special characters?

	Thanks for the response, Peter!
	Excellent suggestion. I should add that the characters only seem to gum 
up moderated lists and I did want to offer a solution to posterity.
	But you are absolutely correct: I do have administrivia enabled on this 
list, which I will remove forthwith.

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Brett Charbeneau
Network Administrator
Williamsburg Regional Library
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
(757)259-4044          www.wrl.org
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Peter P. Benac wrote:

PPB>  
PPB> Considering this list is run through MD I think you need to look elsewhere
PPB> for the cause of your problems. Those characters didn't do anything to this
PPB> list.
PPB> 
PPB> Do you have administrivia enabled or not?  If you do turn it off and MD
PPB> won't scan the body of your messages anymore.
PPB> 
PPB> Regards,
PPB> Pete
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PPB> -----Original Message-----
PPB> From: [email protected]
PPB> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brett Charbeneau
PPB> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 14:01
PPB> To: [email protected]
PPB> Subject: Filter for special characters?
PPB> 
PPB>  	I would like to post a question as well as offer a solution to a
PPB> particular problem we experience with majordomo every few weeks.
PPB>  	I have a user who moderates a closed list and frequently makes posts
PPB> that contain "special" characters, for lack of a better term, imbedded in
PPB> her text.
PPB>  	Here are two examples:
PPB> 
PPB> "Paxton's 40-year career. A two-time Grammy® nominee, he has received the"
PPB> 
PPB> "Tafelmusik of Toronto and Concerto Köln in addition to other early and"
PPB> 
PPB>  	Please note the "®" and "ö" in these two lines. These are seen as
PPB> control characters by the Majordomo program and cause the program to behave
PPB> in unpredictable ways. Posts that contain characters like this will not
PPB> distribute nor bounce.
PPB>  	QUESTION: is there a filter of some sort for MJ that will remove and
PPB> or escape these sorts of characters so as to not offend/confuse?
PPB>  	WORKAROUND: I've discovered if you cut and paste text like this into
PPB> MS Word (not WordPad) and do a "Save As", selecting "MS-DOS Text (*.txt) as
PPB> the "Save as type:" that these sorts of special characters will be removed
PPB> in that saved file.
PPB>  	If you then pull that file up into Word or someother text editor and
PPB> cut and past into an email client things move ahead as expected.
PPB> 
PPB> 
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PPB> Brett Charbeneau
PPB> Network Administrator
PPB> Williamsburg Regional Library
PPB> 7770 Croaker Road
PPB> Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
PPB> (757)259-4044          www.wrl.org
PPB> (757)259-4079 (fax)    [email protected]
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