And here's a message sent using html with "Western European (Windows)" from 
W7 Windows Live Mail, for comparison.

Kevin
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Mac Donnell Rare Books
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Alan Eliasen
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 10:49 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: This is a test message for plain text

On 11/27/2014 09:06 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell wrote:
> This message is in plain text, sent from Windows Live Mail (Windows 7).
>
> Here are three commas   ,   ,   ,=20
>
> Here are three quote marks  =E2=80=9C   =E2=80=9C   =E2=80=9C
>
> Here are three apostrophes  =E2=80=98   =E2=80=98   =E2=80=98

   FYI, those aren't normal quote marks nor apostrophes.  That is, those
aren't ASCII.  Those are UTF-8 encoded versions of the high Unicode
characters "U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" and "U+2018 LEFT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK."

   To solve this, you (and everyone with this problem) should turn
"smart quotes" off in your e-mail client (because they're not actually
smart, nor in the sample above are they correctly balanced, nor do they
correspond correctly to the key you pressed on the keyboard.)  To be
portable, plaintext e-mail should be sent using only ASCII characters.
Apparently the remailer software doesn't understand the encoding you're
sending out, and is unreliable for UTF-8 encoding.

   The Paige typesetter was a technical nightmare that could never be
made to function in the way it was intended, and it ruined Twain and
others, but it still worked better than any Microsoft product.

-- 
  Alan Eliasen
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