FORKNI-L
Digest - 15 Sep 2012 to 16 Sep 2012 (#2012-176)
Sun, 16 Sep 2012
There are 4 messages totalling 179 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Getting foreign accents thru on FKFIC-L? (3)
2. Yuletide fic exchange
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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:52:24 -0400
From: Stephanie Kellerman <stequina@i.......>
Subject: Re: Getting foreign accents thru on FKFIC-L?
What happens if you send it to yourself? Does it come out correctly?
If not it is your email client.
As far as I know most list serves don't accept accents.
If it does then possibly the list serve doesn't have those characters in
the font it is using.
According to the header in your email you are using 8-bit encoding in
your email program. You might try changing it to
MIME-Quoted-Printable character encoding
Steph
On 9/15/2012 6:03 AM, Otto Maton wrote:
> Is there a trick for getting foreign accents correctly posted on this
> server/list? I noticed the tilde (~) on the "n" of "vicuna" at the last
> story I sent was replaced by a diamond with a question mark in its center
> and all the accents on the French FK title as well, except in the subject
> line of my post.
>
> I'm asking because I'm working on a fic that has both French & Spanish and
> it's going to look weird if I can't get it to post correctly. Thank you for
> any help.
>
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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:46:12 -0700
From: Andrew Caruthers <slinter@j.......>
Subject: Re: Getting foreign accents thru on FKFIC-L?
The only thing I have ever found that works is to put the accented word
you wish to emphasize in italics.
Hope that helps.
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:52:24 -0400 Stephanie Kellerman
<stequina@i.......> writes:
> What happens if you send it to yourself? Does it come out correctly?
>
> If not it is your email client.
>
> As far as I know most list serves don't accept accents.
> If it does then possibly the list serve doesn't have those characters in
> the font it is using.
>
> According to the header in your email you are using 8-bit encoding
> in your email program. You might try changing it to
> MIME-Quoted-Printable character encoding
>
> Steph
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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:04:48 -0700
From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......>
Subject: Re: Getting foreign accents thru on FKFIC-L?
My understanding is that the email sent to FORKNI-L
and to FKFIC-L has to be in "plain text" which unfortunately
does not have much in the way of formatting: no italics, no
bold, no accent marks, etc. (hence the name "plain text").
Some of the usual work-arounds are asterisks for bold
and underscores for italics: *bold* and _underscore_.
This does nothing for accent marks though. You could
just ignore them. People are going to know you mean
the South American wool producing animal, the vicuna,
whether there's an accent mark or not.
It may be annoying, but there you are. Note that in
most other venues where FK material is posted, you
can use most of the various formatting and accent marks.
Walt
From: "Otto Maton" <auto17921111@h.......>
> Is there a trick for getting foreign accents correctly posted on this
> server/list? I noticed the tilde (~) on the "n" of "vicuna" at the last
> story I sent was replaced by a diamond with a question mark in its center
> and all the accents on the French FK title as well, except in the subject
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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:48:50 -0400
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Yuletide fic exchange
As many fans know already, Yuletide (http://yuletide-admin.livejournal.com/)
is a big fan-fiction exchange run over the holiday season where you can
write/ask for stories in rare fandoms. Stories are written in the late
fall, and posted in time for Christmas. Alas, it is true that Forever
Knight has been eligible for years: we are nowadays considered a "rare
fandom".
Yuletide nominations will open on 24 September, at which point people can
fill out the form. This lets them name the rare fandoms that they want to
see on the Big List of fandoms. (It is from this list that people will pick
the fandoms they want to ask for stories in, and offer the ones they are
willing to write stories for.)
Right now, therefore, people are talking fandoms--discussing the ones
they're thinking of writing, and spreading the word about things that they
hope other people will nominate.
You see, the rules only allow you to nominate three (3) fandoms to be added
to the Big List of Fandoms from which people can pick. For each of your
three fandoms, you may nominate four (4) characters. (All the nominated
characters in a fandom are then tossed in together, so people asking for
that fandom can choose to ask for any of them.)
So, obviously, I'm going to nominate Forever Knight. But which four of the
FK characters should I name?
And naturally, I hope that *other* people will also nominate Forever Knight.
But which four characters will each of them pick?
This is not an idle question. You see, the rules say that, if I nominate a
character that someone else has already suggested, only one of the
nominations will count. I'll essentially have wasted one of my precious
four characters. So, will everyone nominate Nick, because he *has* to be
there? Then all but the first of those people will be wasting a character
nomination. (Or horrors! maybe no one will nominate Nick because everyone
assumes that someone else will already have done so.)
In short, coordination is needed so that we can ask for the maximum number
of characters. That way, people will have flexibility in asking for the
stories they'd like.
I've started a post on LiveJournal so that we can coordinate.
(http://greerwatson.livejournal.com/23404.html) Do please drop by and tell
everyone which characters you plan to nominate.
Oh, and even if you aren't planning to do Yuletide this year, do consider
putting in a nomination. The more characters we can get listed, the merrier
the players can be.
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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