Hi; Thanks for all the good suggestions. I've tried to implement
them, but so far no luck. Like I said before I hope its truely an
email problem and not just some yahoo who was not ever really serious
to start with. Selling amusement rides is worse than selling real
estate. lol But thanks again, Max
On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi,
I'll admit that I'm puzzled about how a character like "@" does not
get correctly rendered when someone is sending email directly (as
opposed to forwarding it on or going through a secondary service).
However, the fact that the message got through to you with (a) in
place of the "@" sign suggests there is a genuine problem with how
it's being sent out.
Usually, messages that are sent out in 7-bit ASCII text don't have
problems. It's when your mail is sending html or other such formats
that one of these sequences for characters can get confused with
command instructions. In the case of the mail posting to this list,
I pasted in the processor requirements for library digital download
software from a web page, and that included the Registered trademark
symbol
"®". In the list reply from Jane, that came back as "(R)", so I
thought of your post.
There are two ways I use for handling problem mail encodings; you
can try both. The first is to send mail as Text messages. The
second is to send as 8-bit Unicode. (This is the option under the
"Text Encoding" menu for "Message" on the Mail menu bar. The
default setting is "Automatic". You can set it to Unicode (UTF-8).
I had my mail set up this way on my previous laptop (I think,
through my .Mac account settings), but I'm not sure I've set things
this way on this new MacBook.
You can also use the Mail help to look under "International" for the
topics "Including international characters and symbols in messages"
and "Viewing messages with international characters". For viewing,
you can change from "automatic" to specific character encodings
(including Unicode). For sending in Unicode, I've appended the
content of an article (and included the web page source, which I
read in group mode).
Here's the description from excerpted from:
http://tekkie.flashbit.net/mac-os/changing-apple-mail-default-encoding-to-unicode
<begin quote>
Changing Apple Mail default encoding to unicode
Posted on 7th October 2007 in Mac OS
If you’ve ever used Apple Mail for sending an email that has special
characters in it, e.g. umlauts or any other characters that are not
part of the basic Latin alphabet, you might have noticed that
replies on those particular emails include weird and unreadable
characters despite the fact that you didn’t enter any of those. This
is the case with all the replies from MS Outlook or Outlook Express
users.
To prevent that you’ve got to change Apple Mail’s encoding to
unicode so it would leave no space for mixed results.
• First option to go with is to choose Message -> Text encoding ->
Unicode (UTF-8) from the menu for each and every message you create.
But that’s awkward.
• Second option is to set all further messages to use UTF-8
encoding by default. To do so go to Applications -> Utilities and
open Terminal. Copy the line below and hit Enter to execute:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"
<end quote>
Hope this helps. I don't know what else the other party can do from
his end.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:10 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote:
Hello; Thanks for the reply however late. I changed that setting
as you suggested. What I don't understand is why my messages are
being received by him but that I can't receive messages from him.
It could be a font issue as you suggested. I'm starting to worry
that the fellow is just pulling my leg. To be sure I gave him my
brother's email and phone info in hopes that he would email or call
there. My brother has more details about the equipment in question
anyway. But I tell you its frustrating having a buyer and seler
who probably want to deal but you can't move it forward because of
a silly technical issue like this. Thanks again, Max
Max Ivey Jr.
The Midway Marketplace
Office 936-273-6960
Cell 281-989-0448
www.midwaymarketplace.com
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