PowerMail Engineering sez: >>I occasionally get oddly places 1's, 2's and 3's in email texts. They >>appear to be badly translated curly quotes and double quotes. > >It can occur when you receive messages sent by Outlook Express Mac, or >Entourage, due to an encoding bug in these products.
Whaaaa??? Isn't using Microsoft and bugs in the same sentence sort of like using Ellen Feiss and stoned together? >> If I send >>myself an email with curly quotes, they get translated into straight quotes. >> >>So, is there a setting to either allow curly quotes through or translate >>them into straight quotes instead of numbers? > >Curly quotes are not part of the ISO 8859-1 character set; you can change >the character set used for the US/Western Europe language family, in the >preferences, to either windows-1252 or UTF-8 if you don't want curly >quotes converted to straight quotes when you send a message with PowerMail. I like having my sent email convert curly to straight, like it's doing now. What I want to know is how to work around the MS bug so that the improperly encoded curly quotes will show up as straight or curly quotes, instead of as numbers, in my received email. BTW, thanks for being such a useful presence on this list. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Dillon 12081 W. Alameda Parkway DataCraft #506 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lakewood, CO 80228 http://www.DataCraft-Inc.com/ 720/962-4880 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Imagination is more important than knowledge. --- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------
