What if I’m having trouble with plain text?
All word processors add invisible symbols that mean things to it (bold this, space here, carriage return after this word). Some word processors use symbols the plain text reader can see but cannot translate. Voila, Greek symbols in your “plain text” email! Try this: Check your email program settings to see if there’s a place to tell it you want plain text. (Often this is under Tools, Options, Preferences, or Formatting.) Or this: Write your piece. Save it as plain text only (.txt). Close it. Open it again, telling the program to keep it in plain text if it asks you. Then copy/paste it to email. An easy way to check if what you see is plain text, is whether quotation marks and apostrophes are slanted or vertical. Slanted ones (opening and closing quotes look different) are not plain text. I am also always willing to play guinea pig; my email program is very picky about plain text and I can usually tell if what you send me will end up with oddities or not. Feel free to contact me for hel
