Ken, You might try Devon Technologies' Word Services <http://www.devon- technologies.com/products/freeware/services.php>.
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2005/12/plaintextpaste/index.php> or this <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040204170653788> -- Andy Fragen On Fri, Feb 3, 2006, Ken Pope 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. > >Ken > >> Now I don't want to sound flippant but... >> >> don't use any non-ascii characters in the text and it should work. I'm >> sure the recipients of the messages will let you know if there are problems. >> >> -- >> Andy Fragen >> >> On Fri, Feb 3, 2006, Ken Pope said: >> >>> Is there any way to be absolutely certain that a message I'm about to send >>> (parts of which may have been cut and pasted from non-ascii sources) >will be >>> sent in US-ASCII? > > >
