May I ask why seeing the fl ligature - which does exist in Mac Roman - leads Entourage to think that it's really Western European (Windows)? Is it actually that much more likely to be an Icelandic (thorn?) character than a Mac Roman ligature? (Perhaps it is.) Are there many other characters which are interpreted likewise as "proof" of Windows encoding?
This finally explains, I think, why all my OE script descriptions which I used to paste from Tex-Edit Plus into HTML emails to Diane Ross for posting on the Unofficial OE site used to change all my words with fi and fl (I didn't intentionally use ligatures but maybe some program "helped out") into weird characters on the browser page. Although here it was perhaps whatever software was being used to transfer the HTML rather than OE doing it. Similar things still happen if I leave any upper-ASCII characters in descriptions posted at AppleScript Central. -- Paul Berkowitz > From: Dan Crevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:33:39 -0800 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Font displayed in plain-text messages > > Ok, I think I know what's going on. I think it's the fl ligature in the > message. When we see this character, we think it's really Western European > (Windows) as a special case to work around some edge cases with the > ambiguity of ISO-8859-1 (Windows vs. Mac). When we decode this character as > Western European (Windows) it ends up being an icelandic character which > doesn't exist in MacRoman. We end up finding the character in a Chinese > font, so we use your Chinese font to view it. You can manually switch the > encoding using Format->Character Set->Western European (Mac), and you'll see > the ligatures show up again. > > I'd be really surprised if you are seeing this happen very often, ligatures > aren't very common in email. > > Dan > > > On 3/30/2002 7:35 AM, "Christof Stadler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dan, >> >> I sent it to you directly, because this list does not allow mails with >> attachments. >> >> Here are the headers, directly copied from the source display in EntX: >> >> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Received: from smtpin01.mac.com ([10.13.10.146]) by ms02.mac.com >> (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GTOY0D00.U3V; >> Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:05:01 -0800 >> Received: from lists.letterrip.com (lists.letterrip.com [66.125.97.11]) >> by smtpin01.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with SMTP id g2SG4llo010314; >> Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:04:48 -0800 (PST) >> Received: from itochu.net by lists.letterrip.com with SMTP; Thu, 28 Mar >> 2002 07:54:48 -0800 >> User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 >> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:28:26 -0800 >> Subject: Re: More AutoCorrect Bugs? >> From: Eric Hildum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Mime-version: 1.0 >> Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" >> Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Precedence: Bulk >> List-Software: LetterRip Pro 3.0.8b1 by LetterRip Software, LLC. >> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> List-Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Christof >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
