Ken Pope on 2/3/06 said >Thanks, Andy, but you *greatly* over-estimate my ability to spot non-ascii >characters! :) > >When I cut and paste material from non-ascii sources, it is very easy for my >aged eyes to mistake an em-dash or an en-dash for a hyphen, or to miss a >"curly" apostrophe. > >I'm hoping to avoid the problem if at all possible rather than have my >recipients let me know about them. Some are severely disabled and operating >the computer takes considerable time and effort (e.g., when using a >headpointer & puff switch to choose each letter for an email). I'd like >spare them having to notify me that a message showed up in non-US-ASCII >form. > >I was hoping that there might be some display in PowerMail that would tell >me if my message was in US-ASCII or, if not, some other way I could find >out.
If you don't mind an intermediate step, Text Wrangler, which is free, has an option to "zap gremlins" otherwise known as non-ASCII characters in ASCII text. You'd have to paste into text wrangler and then copy and paste into PowerMail. Of course it would be simpler if you could be sure that PM wouldn't send a non-ASCII character, but I think only CTMdev can tell you how to force it in all cases. Sadly to say, TextEdit does rtf files so it wouldn't work. But Text Wrangler is free, at least! That's all I know! Not much... -- Barbara Needham
