I'm not familiar with GoLive, nor am I an expert in the various character
sets, so I'm not sure what you can do to fix the problem. I did a Google
search and found this list:
� Western European, ISO Latin1 (iso-8859-1)
� Central European, ISO Latin2 (iso-8859-2)
� South European, ISO Latin3 (iso-8859-3)
� North European, ISO Latin4 (iso-8859-4)
� Cyrillic, ISO (iso-8859-5)
� Arabic, ISO (iso-8859-6)
� Greek, ISO (iso-8859-7)
� Hebrew, ISO (iso-8859-8)
� Turkish, ISO Latin5 (iso-8859-9)
� Nordic, ISO Latin6 (iso-8859-10)
� Central European, Win Latin2 (windows-1250)
� Slavic, Windows Cyrillic (windows-1251)
� Western European, Win Latin1 (windows-1252)
� Greek, Windows (windows-1253)
� Turkish, Win Latin5 (windows-1254)
� Hebrew, Windows (windows-1255)
� Arabic, Windows (windows-1256)
� Baltic, Windows (windows-1257)
>From that, it appears that the character set that should be used is
"windows-1250". Or, rather, that IS the character set that is being used,
for some reason, rather than "ISO-8859-1". Apparently, GoLive is using the
codes for those "high ASCII" characters (values above 128) that prevail on
Windows machines, while Macs use different codes. The problem is that if you
send your message to a Windows user, they will see it correctly; only Mac
users will see the oddball characters you see. The solution I've found, in
building web pages, is to use the numeric "entity" codes instead of the
actual characters. See if GoLive allows you to have those automatically
substituted as you type, as Dreamweaver does. For instance:
En dash - –
Em dash - —
Left double quote - “
Right diouble quote - ”
Left single quote - ‘
Right single quote - ’
Those codes will be correctly interpreted by any browser or HTML engine that
displays HTML email.
I'm about as much in the dark as you are about where to proceed from here.
On or near 10/14/03 10:50 AM, Doug Brightwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> On or near 10/7/03 4:42 PM, Doug Brightwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> observed:
>
>>> I notice that the HTML code previews fine in the originating application, in
>>> various web browsers on my machine, and in Yahoo's online HTML preview
>>> function. But when I receive a copy in Entourage X, there are anomalies. In
>>> this case, a dash, apostrophe, and open and close quotes were displayed as
>>> unusual characters.
>
>
> On 10/10/03 4:09 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Try opening the message and selecting the menu item "Format->Character
>> Set->Western European (Windows)". Does that fix the oddball characters?
>
> Yes, that did indeed fix the anomalies.
>
>> If so, then something in the way the message is formatted is failing to
>> properly indicate the character set for the message. Windows machines see it
>> correctly because it is in their default character set, but the character
>> set on a Mac is different.
>
> The HTML code generated by Adobe's GoLive embedded the following:
>
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
>
> Then, a bit further down:
>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
>
> Does that mean I just need to learn how to select the right character set
> preferences in GoLive?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Doug
>
> ------------------------
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