Dan, so what happens when I do nasty things like combine $BF|K\8l(J with ligatures such as fi and fl?
By the way, given the capabilities of modern displays, and the tendency towards styling of text messages, I think it is reasonable to expect email systems to perform ligature substitution in the same manner as good word processors. Entourage already does this to some extent as the ligatures in the above paragraph are converted to the two character equivalents with the message is viewed as source (and the Japanese is converted to mojibake). on 3/30/02 8:33 PM, Dan Crevier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. -- Eric Hildum -- 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/>
