I've had the same kind of problem when working with documents on
Windoze. The best I can tell is that M$ uses something greater than 127
for some characters. Like the apostrophe in ASCII is 039 but they use
something like 0146. I'm not an expert in this area, but I don't think
there is anything you or Evolution can do about it. Except as you say,
curse Micro$oft. Just another one of those things were they are
purposefully being non-standard just to annoy people.
/mike
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 06:47, John Klassa wrote:
>
> When I get mail from Outlook users, it often contains *something* that
> makes for really ugly rendering. The attached image shows what I mean.
> The first "box" is really an apostrophe; the thing that looks like a
> capital "J" (or which may actually be a capital "J" :-)) is a smiley.
> The filth that generated this is:
>
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle17><font size=3D2
> color=3Dnavy=
> face=3DArial><span
> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I=
> 217;d say
> you are getting old and senile </span></font></span><span
> class=3DEmailStyl=
> e17><font
> size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DWingdings><span
> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-=
> bidi-font-size:
> 12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-fam=
> ily:
> Arial;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'><span
> style=3D'mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></s=
> pan></font></span><span
> class=3DEmailStyle17><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span
> style=
> =3D'font-size:
> 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
> style=3D"mso-spac=
> erun:
> yes"> </span>In any case, I have a number of questions
> concerning thi=
> s:<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
>
> Microsoft be cursed! :-)
>
> Anyway, any thoughts on what I can do to make this look nice? This kind
> of stuff always comes through in a tiny font (per the attached; my
> default font is much larger), and with missing characters. I do have
> the wingdings font available (I believe it's referred to in the junk I
> quoted), if you're wondering.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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