Powermail appears to disagree with other email programs about the meaning
of certain high-byte characters.
Example:
The source for the email is:
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="==_20040731173811.6872-1_=="
>
>--==_20040731173811.6872-1_==
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
%%SNIP%%
>
>Your Voice Needed to Protect California=B9s Wildlife
>
>The issue: The California Department of Fish and Game has submitted a serie=
>s
>of proposed rule changes to the state=B9s mammal hunting and trapping
>regulations that would seriously undermine efforts to effectively regulate
%%SNIP%%
>--==_20040731173811.6872-1_==
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
><HTML>
%%SNIP%%
><HR ALIGN=3DCENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%"><BR>
></SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR=3D"#FE0000"><FONT SIZE=3D"6"><FONT =
>=46ACE=3D"Arial"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:24.0px'><B>Your Voice Needed to
>Protect =
>California’s Wildlife<BR>
></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, =
>Arial"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><BR>
></SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial"><SPAN =
>STYLE=3D'font-size:16.0px'><B><U>The issue</U></B></SPAN></FONT></
FONT><FONT =
>=46ACE=3D"Arial"><B><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'>:</SPAN></B><SPAN =
>STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'> The California Department of Fish and Game
>has submitted a series of =
>proposed rule changes to the state’s mammal hunting and trapping =
%%SNIP%%
></BODY>
></HTML>
>
>
>--==_20040731173811.6872-1_==--\
This is displayed in Powermail ("Show Plain Text with header") as:
>Your Voice Needed to Protect California1s Wildlife
>
>The issue: The California Department of Fish and Game has submitted a series
>of proposed rule changes to the state1s mammal hunting and trapping
As you can see, the sequence =B9 is trying to represent the right quote
character ’, or html entity ’ which is &rsquo. However, Powermail
displays this character with the digit "1", not the right quote
character. I believe that the bug here is Powermail's, but don't have all
the resources at my fingertips to prove it. (Of course, if you choose
"Show HTML" the intended text is shown correctly).
Can anyone comment further?
(I have seen this bug for a long time, but only recently did I bother to
look into its source)
Alan
