> There is no curly quote in ISO-8859-1. It is not valid ISO-8859-1. There
> are Macintosh and Windows extensions to ISO-8859-1 which are not compatible
> with one another, as I explained.
Thanks for the clarification - I suspected the fault was on the sender's
side.
I do understand that the Mac and Windows systems use their own native
encoding, but I expect that a mailer would translate to an appropriate
standard character set correctly (such as ISO-8859-1 or Unicode). Entourage
seems to do this correctly - thanks to Dan and the rest of the team - but I
notice that most Windows tools do not handle this correctly.
I wonder how many business men (besides the ones I know about) have lost
contracts with potential customers in Japan and China not realizing that
their Windows system encoded the combination 's as the character meaning
foolish or stupid and insulted the persons they were trying to persuade to
purchase their product....
Eric Hildum
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