powermail-discuss Digest #2572 - Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3 by "Dave N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 > > >in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), PowerMail Engineering's message of 12:12 >AM, 2/8/07 > >>Dave N wrote: >> >>>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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of powermail-discuss Digest