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]>
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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
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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
>
>
>
>
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