copy of what was sent to PowerMail support:
When using a name containing an apostrophe in the name part ( I have yet
to see such an email address) then the displayed name will be shortened
to the letters prior to the letter with an apostrophe. So "Camilla
Berndzén" will be shortened to "Camilla Berndz" for example.
Worse is that if you type "Berndzén" as in my example with the previous
mentioned data in the PM adressbook, then nothing is found if you get to
the letter with the apostrophe. If you only type "Bernd" you do find the
person. This could easily be overlooked if the user unknowingly types fast.

Further comment for the list:
I have been and continue to be a bit surprised with how badly PowerMail
handles umlauts (å, ä, ö, ü) and apostrophes (á, é, à, è, í, ì and so
on), especially considering CTM is a swiss outfit and several of the
languages spoken in Switzerland do make use of both umlauts or apostrophes.
In the messages themselves there are few problems if any, but in the
headers or in the native addressbook problems crop up. It is certainly
very irritating and something that would only be expected from an
english-only company.
I don't know what the problem is, perhaps there are different text
engines at work.

Mikael

Tech facts:
PM 5.5.3 Swedish/SpamSieve 2.6.4 Swedish | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 Mhz | 1GB RAM | 80GB HD


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