-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Ben Steeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mike Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] ugly fonts from Outlook users > Date: 14 Dec 2001 11:53:44 -0400 > > On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 11:44, Mike Dougherty wrote: > > 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. > > I suppose you could run the mail through your own filtration system to > change known "out of bounds" characters into their viewable/portable > equivalents. You could also set it up to send a nasty e-mail to the > person who sent you the junk :-) > > It would be fairly easy to do in Perl -- you'd just have to make it > smart enough to only touch text in the body of the message so that > binary attachments aren't harmed. > > > 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. > > -- > Ben Steeves -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ > ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign > ICQ: 15105093 X against HTML e-mail > PGP ID: DE06162D / \ >
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