On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:13, Mike Gifford wrote: > Nice detective work Dan. > > That wrapped up the case pretty nicely.. I was just cutting & pasting > in a quote and it didn't occur to me that there were curly quotes let > alone that this might produce an error anywhere (looked fine to me and > to many folks looking at the email). > > Since Microsoft 'smart' quotes are so common still (not sure if that's > want the issue is or not). I'd strongly suggest that in searching for > character types/languages, that a curly-quote not give any indication on > the language of the email.
character encoding is not really a language indicator, it is just a character set. Each of the iso-8859-* charsets contain a max of 256 possible characters, each containing all of US-ASCII - the high bits (>127 && <256) are extended characters, such as smart quotes, currency symbols, accentuated characters and so forth. If there is no way to represent a particular character in US-ASCII (or the charset you chose), we have no choice but to find a charset that can represent that character. Jeff > > Mike > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:02, Dan Winship wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:14, Mike Gifford wrote: > > > I've received notices from a couple people know that my messages aren't > > > readable. One person thought it was greek another croatian. > > The problem is your signature. The apostrophes in it are curly-quotes, > > so evolution has to find an encoding that has the curly-quote characters > > in it to send the message in. If you retype it using the standard > > straight apostrophe character, then it will be able to send it in > > iso-8859-1. > > > > -- Dan -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
