Oops--[Sca-cooks] Conversion from butter to oil?

[Finne Boonen]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:18:35 -0600, James Prescott
<prescotj at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> >> This is what I meant to say. It works for all vegetable/olive oils.
> >> >
> >> >1 teaspoon butter = ¾ teaspoon oil
> >>
> >>
> >> Except that all these came out as meaningless
> >> graphics, not fractions.  Could you please repeat
> >> it but type out the fractions?
> >>
> >
> > Gee, I am sorry. I have no idea why it looks like that on your side of the
> > screen. Let me try it again.
> 
> 
> Not your fault.  Word for Windows (and perhaps other Microsoft products)
> as a default setting convert some of the common fractions on the fly to
> non-standard Microsoft single character items.  Which look very nice on
> a Windows computer.
> 
> But when transmitted over the Internet to other machines they come
> out as weird characters.  For example, the Microsoft fraction '1/2'
> usually displays on my machine as the Greek letter 'pi'.
> 
> If you want to avoid this, find the relevant Option in Word (or other
> product) and turn it off.  This will not fix existing fractions, but
> it will stop your software from creating new ones.
> 

other thing you can do, is always type emails in the email software,
and put it to no-html(so that you can't use fancy colors or such
things) and only use the standard characters available on the
keyboard.

Finne