on 8/5/01 4:35pm, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 8/5/01 2:50 PM, "Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've come across (what I consider to be) a bug in Entourage's auto-correct
>> spell checking.
>>
>> If I type a word that needs an apostrophe (like "that's" or "I'm") but
>> forget to insert the apostrophe, Entourage thankfully adds it for me -- I
>> like that. However, even though I have Entourage set up to use plain text
>> for all messages, it enters a "curly-quote" apostrophe rather than a plain
>> text apostrophe. Many email systems still don't handle high-ASCII characters
>> like curly-quotes properly, which is one reason I use plain text for
>> everything (plus I'm an email purist, but that's another story ;)). It seems
>> to me that if you have selected "plain text" for outgoing messages,
>> Entourage should always use plain text quotes and apostrophes.
>>
>
> Whatever it may look like in the font you use for plain-text, those are
> straight quotes, not curly quotes. To verify, type "thats" and let the
> auto-correct insert an apostrophe: that's. Then separate it out: that ' s.
> Then type a regular apostrophe next to it on one side and option-shift-]
> (which makes a curly one: � ) on the other side: that ''� s . If you look
> closely (or set your plain text size huge, or mail it to a mailing list that
> may mangle it, hence my cc to you here), you'll see the difference.
>
I disagree with this assessment Paul. I have seen the same thing. I often
type the word "don't" by typing the letters and the the apostrophe. It comes
out looking like this: don�t'
I don't know how that is going to come out. Right now, I see the d-o-n
followed by a curly-quote the 't' and a straight quote.
And I agree with Dan's basic request. If you are sending plain text only, it
should be straight quotes that are inserted.
Ken
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