On 10/17/06 8:40 AM, "List Fiend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to have Unicode be used as the default character set for all > messages I compose? > > (I hate seeing quote marks and other special characters getting lost in > translation) It doesn't make any difference what the default is. If you use any characters that require Unicode character set Entourage will automatically choose it. More likely if you use any non-ASCII characters that require ISO 8859-1 Entourage will use that. There is virtually no danger that curly quote marks or other special characters are seen incorrectly by recipients. (Unless you choose Unicode and the recipient does not have a Unicode-aware email client.) The reason why you see your own curly quotes perverted when the recipient responds again to you is because his email client incorrectly claims that the curly quotes you used first time (which the recipient sees correctly since they've been encoded as 8859-1) are part of a US-ASCII character set. The other guy's email client (your original recipient) wrongly sees the curly quotes as US-ASCII instead of 8859-1. They're not - and since they have a different character representation in MacRoman on the Mac, YOU see them perverted. But he saw them correctly, since Entourage did it right first time. -- Paul Berkowitz -- 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/>
