Robert Nagle wrote: >when I view the sent email using Mozilla, >a ? will replace characters like quotation marks and other things. > [...]
>What I do is copy and paste things into the Mozilla email composer. >First, I cut and paste a cover letter from a MS Word document. Second, >I cut and paste a hyperlinked passage from one of my web pages. These >are what gives me problems. > Yeah, right, *don't do that*! MS Word uses "smart quotes" - the top/bottom ones - instead of the normal, standard double quotes. Since the smart quotes have no encoding in US-ASCII and (ISO-8859-1, I think), you get that mess. Don't use MS Word for anything but composing paper letters (and better don't use it at all.) Use the HTML editor in Mozilla. >I have my coding for viewing messages as iso 8859-1. > >When I change the coding to unicode utf-8, the warning box disappears >when i sent messages. I can also view utf-8 messages normally in >mozilla as well as outlook. But I can't view it in yahoo. The >apostrophes don't work. And yahoo mail says: > >"Certain messages encoded with character sets other than US-ASCII >don't display correctly. Some characters which aren't used in English >will appear correctly because they are either part of the character >set or are in a format called "quoted printable." > Yes, utf-8 is prefered, but had interoperability problems. Good to know that Yahoo is one of the problematic ones. Could you read the rest of the msg in Yahoo, apart from the quotes? If so, that would actually be relatively good. Other mailers just freak out completely. >I never expected character coding to be such a big problem with >mozilla. Hey, it's only English. Why is this so hard? > Read bug 109342 <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109342> >What is the best setting for encoding? UTF 8? > Yes, on technical grounds, but it won't work with many recievers, so there is no single best encoding, just one that works for your msg and your recievers.
