On 2011-05-18, Derek Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 06:49:04PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> The single-quote characters denoted by =8C and =B9 don't display
>> properly. Neither does what I'm guessing is some sort of dash encoded
>> by =8B.
>>
>> Those codes aren't right for ISO-8859-[1,15] or any of the common
>> Windows code-pages. Emails from that same Exchange server who use
>> Outlook seem fine, so it looks like it's a problem with Microsoft
>> Entourage.
>
> Oh, that problem.
I should have been looking at more that one e-mail when doing my
testing.
Sorry for wasting your time.
> I have seen this also from coworkers who use Entourage, who send in
> plain text but have "smart quotes" enabled in Entourage.
I'll suggest to this user that he might want to turn smart quotes off,
since they don't seem to work right.
> I was never able to resolve it to my satisfaction, but the problem
> went away on its own eventually everyone I communicate changed their
> e-mail environment in one way or another. Sorry, I have no idea what
> the fix for that one is.
I suppose some sort of header-hook that would prefer text/html when
the user-agent is Entourage, but I don't recall that being something
doable.
> It seems like Entourage and/or Macs have a unique encoding for that
> stuff that I was never able to identify.
E-mails from the normal OS-X "mail" program don't have this problem,
so it's probably Microsoft's fault.
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