And, as another complication, I'm not sure if AppleDouble and Binhex have
been extended for long/unicode filename support.  The versions we are
currently coding to do not seem to.  The problem I was mentioning below is
in the MIME headers.

Dan

On 3/28/2002 11:58 AM, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There's no easy solution to this one.  The encoding for filenames in
> messages isn't very well standardized across different email clients.  We
> had to do *lots* of tweaking to come up with a system that would be
> compatible with various email clients out there.  I honestly don't know how
> we can do better without making it so that if you send attachments to
> certain email clients, the names will be scrambled.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On 3/27/2002 1:18 PM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> I am afraid the problem is even worse than you realize - non-English file
>> names will be converted to question marks when attachments are saved by the
>> English version of Entourage. I suspect the problem will occur any time the
>> attachment name is not in the same script as the the version of Entourage.
>> 
>> on 3/25/02 11:25 AM, Weiyun Yu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Is it true that Entourage only support short file names as attachments? It
>>> does not seem to support the longer file names of OS X/Win XP etc. This is a
>>> bit of a pain at present with its truncated and hex modified names. Anyone
>>> know of any upcoming fixes for it?
> 


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