On 1/23/01 1:32 PM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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....
Both Windows and Mac products "incorrectly" send stuff labeled as ISO-8859-1
that isn't. This includes Entourage. It's a historical problem.
ISO-8859-1 doesn't handle all of the characters that people want. Unicode
is really the solution, and Entourage handles that well, but there are still
a lot of clients out there that don't handle it properly, so Entourage
doesn't send it by default.
Dan
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