On 4/23/05 11:31 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, it won't show up on _either_ platform. Tab characters (ASCII 9) are used > for one specific purpose in encoded message sources: they indicate a > continuation line within a header when the line is so long it has to break > (i.e., longer than 76 characters). Therefore all email clients convert tabs > to spaces (usually 3 or 4) when sending email. Most do what Entourage does > and do the conversion at the moment you type or paste the text in. There's > nothing you can do about that except not to send as text. If you send as > HTML the tabs might get encoded as quoted-printable and get re-constituted > at the other end, but I'm pretty sure they get changed to spaces too - > certainly in Entourage they do - again when typing or pasting). > > You'll have to substitute an unusual symbol or symbols - such as � or ��� - > for the Tab character, and then re-concert it back when importing into > Excel. You can tell Excel to use the symbol(s) as the delimiter. Hello Paul, Thanks for your detailed explanation. I kind of figured as much ... That it was something like this ... So basically I did decide to use the '|' character as the delimiter. One interesting item however - is that - I believe I was sending plain text e-mail from ColdFusion - and the chr(9) character did show up perfectly well on Mac OSX entourage, as a tab character when pasted in a text editor and view invisibles... ( also - I was able to directly import this into FileMaker with all the fields showing up correctly!) ... But as you said, this did not work at all on the PC... -- Thanks - RevDave [EMAIL PROTECTED] [db-lists] -- 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/>
