Reply to message sent by Tom Dillon on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:26 (-0700 from GMT):
>>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. I too see these 1's, 2's and 3's in received messages every day. Many of my colleagues aren't enlightened (i.e. they use Entourage instead of PowerMail). Anyway, I haven't found a workaround yet. I wonder if one could write a script to fix this? When I last mentioned this issue here's what CTM had to say: >This, in fact, is a bug in the sender's composition of the message >(Outlook Express or Entourage); the said message gets sent as a multipart >message and while AppleMail displays its HTML version which is indeed >correctly written out by the sender, we display the plain text version, >which was not correctly encoded. > >Best regards, > >jean michel/ctm qa Dave Burbank
