powermail-discuss Digest #2572 - Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
by "Dave N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
From: "Dave N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:45:53 -0800
Today I1m getting really annoyed at seeing 1 instead of apostrophes.
CTM, PLEASE fix this for us!
You do love us more than Microsoft does, ... don1t you?
(you DO, right??)
Best,
Dave N
in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Dave N's message of 12:05 PM, 2/8/07
>Without getting into a tis/taint argument about WHO should fix the
>problem, and even though we all hope that CTMDEV cares more about
>PowerMail users than Microsoft does.....
>
>How about a toolbar button that does a find/replace to fix these?
>For instances of *1* to detect a 1 in place of a single quote, replace
>with *'*. And so forth. So a word like don1t would be corrected to be
>don't. If it's really true that only humans can detect these poorly
>encoded messages, then let the humans push the button to replace the 1,2,
>or 3 with ' and ".
>
>Part of the problem is that according to the Rest of the World, my email
>program of choice is lame because it can1t properly display messages that
>2everybody else3 can.
>
>Actually, I would LOVE to have a find/replace feature in PowerMail. I
>live in PowerMail a lot more than any other word processor, and yet I
>find myself copy/pasting entire messages into TextWrangler for simple
>things, like find/replace a certain expression or word. Then select all/
>copy/paste back to PowerMail.
>
>DaveN
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>in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), PowerMail Engineering's message of 12:12
>AM, 2/8/07
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>>Dave N wrote:
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>>>It also happens with emails sent from the newest version of MS Entourage
>>>2004 for Mac. Does that count as a different email client?
>>>
>>>Is there a setting I can make in PowerMail that will deal with this well?
>>>Other email programs seem to deal with it ok.
>>
>>These messages are badly encoded. Microsoft should fix this problem.
>>Some other email programs display these messages correctly, either
>>because they display the HTML part (which do not have this problem), or
>>because they have hard-coded the fact that entourage messages are badly
>>encoded. But if Microsoft fixes the problem, good Entourage messages
>>will now look as if they were badly encoded...
>>
>>Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering
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