Diagnose This! (A puzzler)

[Ron Nossaman]

>  bet it's those eccentric apostrophes he's sending out. As rendered by my 
> Eudora, his open-quotes are lower case "i"s with the dot replaced by an 
> accent aigu (?) (you know, the "4 o'clock" accent). Closed quotes, the 
> dot is replaced by a "^". A comma is an upper case "O" with an umlaut. 
> The apostrophe is the lower case "i" with an accent grave for a dot. (I 
> can't find my high school French textbook. Can you tell?)
>
>Alan, are you writing your emails in MS Word, or something else which has 
>"smart quotes"? Or are we looking at 2-bit encryption.
>
>Mr. Bill
>
>"Baa, Ram Ewe....Baa, Ram Ewe,
>To your breed, To your fleece, To your clan be true
>Sheep be true.......Baa, Ram, Ewe"
>     ...........Conversation starter in uncertain social situations


Could be.

"Elm trees speak no known language" - A truth for which there is little demand.

Ron N