curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
Hi, I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like this: I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are using curly quotes. What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when received? I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: Languge family: US/Western Europe Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) TIA, DaveN
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
I think that this is an Outlook Express Bug. If I remember correctly, Outlook Express says that it is using one character encoding and actually uses a different one. Look at the headers to see if all are from the same mail client, then do a google search. But I think the answer is, if you are going to lynch someone, perhaps you should find a microsoft engineer. A On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:14:38 -0800 Dave N said: Hi, I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like this: I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are using curly quotes. What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when received? I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: Languge family: US/Western Europe Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) TIA, DaveN
powermail-discuss Digest #2558 - 02/07/07
powermail-discuss Digest #2558 - Wednesday, February 7, 2007 curly quotes become 1, 2, 3 by Dave N [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3 by Alan Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Subject: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3 From: Dave N [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:14:38 -0800 Hi, I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like this: I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are using curly quotes. What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when received? I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: Languge family: US/Western Europe Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) TIA, DaveN -- Subject: Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3 From: Alan Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:26:23 -0800 I think that this is an Outlook Express Bug. If I remember correctly, Outlook Express says that it is using one character encoding and actually uses a different one. Look at the headers to see if all are from the same mail client, then do a google search. But I think the answer is, if you are going to lynch someone, perhaps you should find a microsoft engineer. A On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:14:38 -0800 Dave N said: Hi, I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like this: I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are using curly quotes. What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when received? I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: Languge family: US/Western Europe Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) TIA, DaveN -- End of powermail-discuss Digest
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
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. D Nathanson in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Alan Harper's message of 10:26 AM, 2/7/07 I think that this is an Outlook Express Bug. If I remember correctly, Outlook Express says that it is using one character encoding and actually uses a different one. Look at the headers to see if all are from the same mail client, then do a google search. But I think the answer is, if you are going to lynch someone, perhaps you should find a microsoft engineer. A On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:14:38 -0800 Dave N said: Hi, I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like this: I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are using curly quotes. What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when received? I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: Languge family: US/Western Europe Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) TIA, DaveN
